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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

bike / bīk/ inf. • n. a bicycle or motorcycle: I'm going by bike [as adj.] a bike ride. • v. [intr.] ride a bicycle or motorcycle: we hope to encourage as many people as possible to bike to work [as n.] (biking) the terrain is perfect for biking.

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Bike

Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms | 1985 | Copyright

Bike

a swarm or crowd of people; a nest of wild bees; a beehive shaped stack of corn chaff; a teeming crowd; a “crew.”

Examples: bike of ants; of beggars, 1785; of bumble bees, 1759; of wild bees.

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bike

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

bike •alike, bike, dyke, haik, hike, kike, like, mic, mike, mislike, pike, psych, psyche, shrike, spike, strike, trike, tyke, Van Dyck, vandyke •pushbike • motorbike • Klondike •Thorndike • Updike • hitchhike •crablike • lamblike •fanlike, manlike, panlike •trap-like • catlike • starlike • calf-like •glass-like, grass-like •branch-like • plant-like • thread-like •gem-like • deathlike • waiflike •vein-like • wraithlike • fiendlike •leaf-like • dreamlike • queen-like •sheeplike • witchlike • sylphlike •piglike •springlike, string-like, wing-like •lip-like • princelike • ladylike •businesslike • lifelike • childlike •Christlike, vice-like •knob-like •godlike, rod-like •doglike • rock-like • swanlike •foxlike • warlike • lord-like •horselike • globe-like •dome-like, homelike •ghostlike • rose-like • toylike •root-like • tooth-like • hood-like •wolf-like • hook-like •wool-like • suchlike • sponge-like •nunlike, sunlike •dovelike • lion-like • flower-like •soundalike • lookalike •statesmanlike • seamanlike •sportsmanlike • womanlike •workmanlike • fatherlike • worm-like •handspike • garpike • marlinspike •turnpike

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