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Take for a ride

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To deceive someone. idiomatic, informal, transitive

    "Two timing woman / Trying to take me for a ride"

  2. 2
    To drive (a person) to a remote location in order to murder them. euphemistic, idiomatic, informal, transitive

    "Yet he was kidnapped and "taken for a ride" in the fashion which Al Capone did so much to popularize in Chicago; and one story has it that he was shot only because the rope with which he was to have been hanged did not arrive in time."

  3. 3
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, for, a, ride.

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