Motorcycle

Quick meaning: Motorcycle is a noun meaning An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle.

Example Sentences

Vern rubbed her hands along the motorcycles, admiring their size and power, their silver and black sleekness.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• motorcycles
• motor cycle
• motor-cycle
• motorcycling
• motorcycled

Synonyms for motorcycle

Depending on context, synonyms include bike, chopper, cycle, moped, motorbicycle, motorbike.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bike, cycle, scooter, bicycle, cyclist, motorbike.

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