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bike
1[ bahyk ]
bike
2[ bahyk ]
noun
- a colony, nest, or swarm of wild bees, wasps, or hornets.
- a teeming crowd; swarm of people.
bike
1/ ɪ /
noun
- informal.short for bicycle motorcycle
- on your bike slang.away you go
- get off one's bike slang.to lose one's self-control
noun
- slang.a promiscuous woman
the town bike
bike
2/ ɪ; bəɪk /
noun
- a wasps' or bees' nest
verb
- to swarm
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of bike1
Idioms and Phrases
- get off one's bike, Australian Informal. to lose control of oneself or become angry.
Example Sentences
He was just the big guy who ran a bike shop.
Their actions follow a similar pattern of reports of large groups of teens on bikes stealing from stores and attacking drivers across the city over the last several months.
"They've got the merchandise, the T-shirts, the bike with the correct registration plate - it makes us want to do an even better job," he says.
He targeted people at random, firing at them as they walked down streets, rode bikes or drove their cars.
It kind of was like riding a bike, especially when you put the suit on.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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