bone shaker


nounSlang.
  1. an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.

  2. any uncomfortable vehicle.

  1. a rough ride in a vehicle.

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How to use bone shaker in a sentence

  • The distance from the town was no obstacle, he being the happy possessor of a "bone-shaker" bicycle.

    The Little Missis | Charlotte Skinner
  • We got here middle day, yesterday—came over the hills from the railway in a regular old bone-shaker of a coach.

    The New Tenant | E. Phillips Oppenheim

British Dictionary definitions for boneshaker

boneshaker

/ (ˈbəʊnˌʃeɪkə) /


noun
  1. an early type of bicycle having solid tyres and no springs

  2. slang any decrepit or rickety vehicle

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