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Tories on bikes

Tories on bikes noun: members or supporters of a Green Party who are politically conservative.

Noun

Tories on bikes pl (plural only)

  1. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, derogatory) Members or supporters of a Green Party who are politically conservative.
    • The only viable alternative for decades has been The Australian Greens, formerly a protest party, but now a progressive middle-class party. It’s a coalition of Tories on bikes, socially conscious baby boomers who live in architect-designed homes, and millennials who haven’t yet graduated from edgy...2018 September 7, Ivan Mitchell, Daniel Lopez, “The Immodest Victorian Socialists”, in Jacobin, retrieved 01 Apr 2021
    • A derogatory name for the Greens is "Tories on bikes"; they also oppose building on green belts around cities, and thus inadvertently encourage car commuting, with its attendant car pollution.2019, Danny Dorling, Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN, retrieved 01 Apr 2021

Origin of Tories on bikes

So-called due to bicycles being commonly prescribed as an environmentally friendly form of personal transportation.

Questions about Tories on bikes

What does Tories on bikes mean?
Tories on bikes means members or supporters of a Green Party who are politically conservative.
What part of speech is Tories on bikes?
Tories on bikes is a noun.

Words near Tories on bikes in the dictionary

  1. toricity
  2. Toride
  3. Toriel
  4. Toriello
  5. tories
  6. Tories on bikes
  7. Toriest
  8. torified
  9. torifies
  10. toriform
  11. torify

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