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/ˈməʊtəˌsaɪkəl/ · noun
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.
Vern rubbed her hands along the motorcycles, admiring their size and power, their silver and black sleekness.
Her breakout was the 2017 production “Nate” (available as a Netflix special) in which she played a toxic, handsy bro who drove a motorcycle onstage, guzzling beers, groping audience members and creating chaos.
Use motorcycle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Motorcycle means An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels..
Common synonyms include bike, chopper, cycle, moped.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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