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shafties

shafties is the plural of shaftie.

shafties is the plural of shafty.

Meaning of shafty

Noun

shafty (plural shafties)

  1. (informal) A bicycle that uses a driveshaft instead of a chain to transmit power from the pedals to the wheel.
    • At the rear, you'll find a single, centrally mounted shock, the now-familiar single-sided swingarm and BMW's Paralever shaft-drive system, which does away with most of a shafty's chassis-jacking bugaboos.1994, Cycle World Magazine, volume 33, number 1, page 49

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Questions about shafties

What is shafties the plural of?
Shafties is the plural of shaftie.

Words near shafties in the dictionary

  1. Shaftholme
  2. shafthouse
  3. shafthouses
  4. shaftie
  5. shaftier
  6. shafties
  7. shaftiest
  8. shaftin'
  9. shafting
  10. shaftings
  11. shaftless

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