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)”.

Synonyms

• (motorcycle): motorbike
• (woman): slapper (British), slag (British)

Derived terms

• (bicycle) cross bike; dirt bike; like riding a bike; mountain bike; road bike; utility bike
• (motorcycle) biker; bikey or bikie (Australia); quad bike
• (woman) town bike, village bike

Translations

See also

• trike

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.

Translations

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.

Anagrams

• Beki
• kibe

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

Derived terms