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bicycle pump

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noun

  1. a hand pump for pumping air into the tyres of a bicycle

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But when air sinks it is heated due to compression, like how a bicycle pump gets hot because the air is being squeezed into a smaller space.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023

He applies a bicycle pump to the wheels and is off, weaving through traffic of motorcycles and trucks.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 28, 2023

Hardware stores are also useful: “You can make a fully functioning asthma nebulizer with a bicycle pump, tubing, some adapters and filters,” he said.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2014

Drawing on his online network of fellow weapons-spotters and translators, Higgins established that it was in fact a bicycle pump.

From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2013

He was a large, beefy man who looked like his younger son, if you blew JT up with a bicycle pump to twice his size.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine

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