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motorcycle

verb

  1. ride a two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle
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noun

  1. powered two-wheeled vehicle
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈməʊtəˌsaɪkəl/ / /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/ / [ˈmoʊɾɚˌsaɪkl̩]

noun

Etymology: From motor + cycle, from the Motorcyclette produced in 1897 by the French Werner Frères et Cie.

  1. An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.

    Her big mission is to recover the precious Blue Star (a glowing rock in a box), which leads to a Western shoot-out, a space-age motorcycle gang, and an unamusing Darth Vader-esque villain.

    That last problem did intrude on Hazzard’s roamings, and when she refers to the living city it is with periodic references to thefts of cars and wallets, with a warning not to carry anything “snatchable” by the thieves on motorcycles who whiz through the streets. Her husband, Francis Steegmuller, the critic, translator and biographer who died in 1994, had a bag snatched, and while he lost only a guidebook, he was badly injured as he held on to it and was dragged behind the attacking motorcycle.

verb

Etymology: From motor + cycle, from the Motorcyclette produced in 1897 by the French Werner Frères et Cie.

  1. To ride a motorcycle.