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motor cycle

motor cycle is the uncommon form of motorcycle.

Meaning of motorcycle

Noun

motorcycle (plural motorcycles)

  1. An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.
    • Her big mission is to recover the precious Blue Star (a glowing rock in a box), which leads to a Western shoot-out, a space-age motorcycle gang, and an unamusing Darth Vader-esque villain.1995 October, Steven Puchalski, “Can these sci-fi videos show us the Woman of the Future?”, in Sci Fi Entertainment, page 36

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Forms of motor cycle

pluralmotor cycles

Questions about motor cycle

What is motor cycle the uncommon form of?
Motor cycle is the uncommon form of motorcycle.

Words near motor cycle in the dictionary

  1. motor cortices
  2. motor court
  3. motor courts
  4. motor cruiser
  5. motor cruisers
  6. motor cycle
  7. motor cycles
  8. motor factor
  9. motor factors
  10. motor glider
  11. motor gliders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: motor cycle (page history and authors); motorcycle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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