trike

[trahyk]

noun Informal.

tricycle.

Origin of trike

by shortening and alteration; see bike¹

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Historical Examples of trike

Miss Bibby went round at once to the other door and demanded “Trike,” though Kate strongly advised against it.
In the Mist of the Mountains
Ethel Turner
I tiptoed downstairs and out the front door to where the trike car was parked, and started for the village a mile to the west.
The Statue
Mari Wolf
Lately it grew harder and harder to drive, to keep the trike car on the narrow strip of pavement.
The Statue
Mari Wolf
And why should those border desperadoes have followed, through sixty miles of desolation, to trike him down?
Keith of the Border
Randall Parrish

British Dictionary definitions for trike

trike

noun

short for tricycle

short for trichloroethylene

a microlight aircraft with three fixed wheels for landing and take-off

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Word Origin and History for trike

short for tricycle, 1883.