motorbike
[moh-ter-bahyk]
- a small, lightweight motorcycle.
- a bicycle that is propelled by an attached motor.
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- to go by motorbike; drive or ride a motorbike.
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Origin of motorbike
Also called mo·tor·bi·cy·cle [moh-ter-bahy-si-kuh l, ‐sik-uh l, ‐sahy-kuh l] /ˈmoʊ tərˌbaɪ sɪ kəl, ‐sɪk əl, ‐saɪ kəl/.
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An occasional tour bus or motorbike roars through, and, at dusk, hot air balloons drift lazily overhead.
He was gunned down by one or two gunmen riding on a motorbike near one of his houses in the Islamabad suburb of Bhara Kahu.
On-duty NYPD officers in upper Manhattan have been working to quell the motorbike menace for the past two years.
Lawrence retires to obscurity and dies in a motorbike accident in 1935.
Her teenage son was tethered to a motorbike and dragged across a rocky road.
motorbike
- a less formal name for motorcycle
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