bicycles

noun

A vehicle that has two primary wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider’s feet upon pedals.

(British, Australia, New Zealand) A motorbike.

The best possible hand in lowball.

(poker slang) The wheel: either the lowest straight (A-2-3-4-5) or the best low hand in Lowball or High-low poker.

A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs.

(climbing) A stabilizing technique in which one foot is pushed down while the other is pulled up.

(vulgar slang, usually in compounds specifying a context) A slut; a promiscuous woman.

(by extension, sometimes proscribed) Any similar vehicle powered by human pedaling or steered with a handlebar, regardless of the number of wheels.

verb

(ambitransitive) To travel or exercise using a bicycle.

(television, historical, transitive) To physically ship (a recorded programme) to another broadcasting entity.

Roots

bisbi- · Latin · twice, two kyklos-cycl · Greek · circle, wheel

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