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Bike

Bike

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Noun.
[Ethymol. unknown.]
A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.
[Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.

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bike

bike

See also: Bíke

English

A bike.

Noun

bike (plural bikes)

  1. A short form of bicycle.
  2. A short form of motorbike.
  3. (slang) A promiscuous woman; from “the town bike (everybody rides her)”.
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References
  1. An Etymological Brainteaser: The Shortening of Bicycle to Bike, Robert B. Hausmann, American Speech, Vol. 51, No. 3/4 (Autumn - Winter, 1976), pp. 272–274

Verb

bike (third-person singular simple present bikes, present participle biking, simple past and past participle biked)

  1. To ride a bike.
    I biked so much yesterday that I'm very sore today.
  2. To travel by bike.
    It was such a nice day I decided to bike to the store, though it's far enough I usually take my car.
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Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

bike (plural bikes)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) A nest of wasps or hornets.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir W. Scott to this entry?)
    • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 107:
      he stood for a minute talking to them about their job of gathering cones, and telling them a story about a tree he'd once climbed which had a wasp's byke in it unbeknown to him.
  2. (chiefly Scotland, by extension, collective) A crowd of people.

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Basque

Etymology

From Latin pix.

Noun

bike

  1. pitch

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English bike.

Noun

bike f (invariable)

  1. motorbike, motorcycle

Kurdish

Verb

bike

  1. Third-person singular future of kirin.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowing from English bike.

Noun

bike f (plural bikes)

  1. (Jersey) bicycle

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