bike

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of bicycle.

   “It's called a gravel bike, and seems to combine the advantages of both road and mountain bikes – with a similar ability to lap up the miles on tarmac as a road bike, while still being very capable off-road.”

   “Some of the bikes parked outside Granite Oaks Middle School are the Class Two e-bikes the district is banning.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of motorbike.
3. Any vehicle sharing some characteristics with a bicycle or motorbike, such as pedal power, a handlebar, or a saddle.

   “He warmed up the engine; the bike hovered off the ground despite his weight and the extra equipment.”

   “In 2017, Amsterdam banned beer bikes from the center of the Dutch city. About 6,000 locals signed a petition, calling on the council to outlaw the vehicles, referring to them as a “terrible phenomenon.””

4. (abbreviation, alt-of, derogatory, ellipsis, slang)Ellipsis of village bike.
5. (Northern-England, Scotland, informal)A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.

   “like blue bottle flees in a blink of sunshine, […]A bonny bike there’s o’ them!”

   “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.”

6. (Scotland, broadly, collective, informal)A crowd of people.

verb

1. (informal, intransitive)To ride a bike.

   “I biked so much yesterday that I'm very sore today.”

   “In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepantsed female activity of biking “sinful bicycling,” he noted.”

2. (informal, intransitive)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.”

   “He saw me catch a trap and leave the house of a drug dealer. That's why he targeted me. He could have easily blown my ass off right then and there for lying, but for some reason he didn't. He just left. I biked back to my plug's spot and told him […]”

3. (informal, transitive)To transport by bicycle.

   “I biked them the letters.”

   “Frank, a teenager, arrived at his grandfather’s shop to begin work as a butcher’s boy. The job would be to bike parcels of meat around Dronfield and the surrounding countryside between the cities of Sheffield and Chesterfield, right on the county border of Derbyshire and Yorkshire.”