To ride in the front passenger seat of a vehicle, next to the driver.
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- Probably arose in early-20th-century Western fiction and movies where an employee or friend armed with a rifle or shotgun would ride next to a stagecoach driver for protection from bandits Indians.
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When both kids want to ride shotgun with Mom, they'll just have to take turns.
Submitted on September 01, 2009
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