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free ride
noun
Informal.something obtained without effort or cost.
The fact that you're the general's sondoesn't mean you'll get a free ride in the army.
Stud Poker.a round of betting in which each player checks and therefore receives another card without having to contribute any chips to the pot.
Word History and Origins
Origin of free ride1
Example Sentences
The service, which provides fans a free ride between Union Station and Dodger Stadium, “will be running per usual,” Metro senior director of communications Missy Colman said Thursday.
"I'm supposed to be on benefits and a 'free ride'," he says, using his hands to make quotation marks.
"But the free ride isn't all that. I wish I was an asylum seeker, I'd have free accommodation."
American presidents going back to Dwight D. Eisenhower in the late 1950s have complained, with good reason, about Europeans getting a free ride from the US security blanket over Europe.
A remora who eats scraps of food dropped by Trump, is protected by Trump and gets a free ride from Trump.
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