bicycle

noun bicycles

1. 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. In most English villages, as we are informed, bicycles are not allowed on the sidewalks; and the hand-books issued by English manufacturers of bicycles caution their customers that it is a forbidden practice, while in many places bells have to be attached to the bicycles even when ridden in the stre

   Similar: bike, pushbike, two-wheeler, velocipede

2. broadly, proscribed, sometimes Any similar vehicle powered by human pedaling or steered with a handlebar, regardless of the number of wheels. The small, three-wheeled bicycle-type vehicle is probably the lowest-cost set of wheels for routine, in-park patrol use.
3. A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs.
4. The best possible hand in lowball.
5. Australia, New Zealand, UK A motorbike.
6. slang, vulgar A slut; a promiscuous woman. ‘What sort of bullying does this sergeant go in for?’ ‘Character assassination,’ she said in a matter-of-fact tone that belied the very real difficulties it was causing her. ‘There’s a lot of whispering about slags and tarts behind my back and sniggers whenever I appear. Half of the men seem to thin

   Similar: town bicycle, village bicycle

7. A stabilizing technique in which one foot is pushed down while the other is pulled up.
8. slang The wheel: either the lowest straight (A-2-3-4-5) or the best low hand in Lowball or High-low poker.
9. A bicyclic molecule.
10. Two interconnected metabolic cycles. The fumarate produced in the argininosuccinase reaction is also an intermediate of the citric acid cycle. Thus, the cycles are, in principle, interconnected — in a process dubbed the “Krebs bicycle”.

Similar: bicycle, wheel, bike, celeripede, cycle, velocipede

verb bicycles · bicycling · bicycled

1. ambitransitive To travel or exercise using a bicycle. “At least it cannot be your health," said he, as his keen eyes darted over her; "so ardent a bicyclist must be full of energy.” […] “Yes, I bicycle a good deal, Mr. Holmes, and that has something to do with my visit to you to-day.”
2. historical, transitive To physically ship (a recorded programme) to another broadcasting entity. “Bicycling” defeated the possibility of topicality, a prime production habit of the network-trained production executives staffing the new entity.