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push-bike

push-bike is the alternative form of pushbike.

Meaning of pushbike

Noun

pushbike (plural pushbikes)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal) A pedal bicycle, as distinguished from a motorized bicycle.
    • In England I learned to ride what the Australians call a push-bike, and spent many week-end leaves, and one four days' leave, riding in the South of England and Wales. [...] Today, I wished the push-bike was in its old place—especially when three boys sailed past on push-bikes and offered to give...1919, The Motorcycle Illustrated, volume 15, New York, N.Y.: Motorcycle Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 15

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Forms of push-bike

Noun
pluralpush-bikes
Verb
third-person singular presentpush-bikes
present participlepush-biking
past participlepush-biked
pastpush-biked

Questions about push-bike

What is push-bike the alternative form of?
Push-bike is the alternative form of pushbike.

Words near push-bike in the dictionary

  1. push water uphill
  2. push wood
  3. push-and-pull
  4. push-back
  5. push-backs
  6. push-bike
  7. push-biked
  8. push-bikes
  9. push-biking
  10. push-button
  11. push-buttons

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