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village bike en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From the joke that "everyone gets a ride" (i.e. sexual intercourse).

Meanings

1. (UK, derogatory, slang) A local woman who is sexually promiscuous.
   • She has a bit of a Village Bike reputation, and she usually wears her hair in two pigtails. 2009, Brent Crawford, Carter Finally Gets It:
   • The local people privately called Jean's mother 'The Village Bike', on which everyone got to ride. Jean had no way of knowing whether the man who lived with them was her father; the man himself may not have known. 1988, David Cook, Crying out loud:
   • He said of the girl complainant: 'She was the village bike.' 'What do you mean by that?' asked the Chairman. 'Everybody rode her,' was the reply. The idiom is evidently widely diffused, and there is little profit in trying to establish who invented it […] 1983, Philip Howard, A word in your ear:
   • Dexter wrote: > […] My charity is always extended to the local drunks of the village where I was brought up. You were the village bike then? 2003, Effervescing Elephant, “Re: Stealth aircraft over Lincs”, in uk.local.lincolnshire (Usenet):
   • The boys nicknamed her the “village bike” and any lad who wanted affection or experience picked her up for the night. 2009, Annette J. Dunlea, Always and Forever:
   • My ex wife's a bit of a village bike, does that count? :-P 2012 May 15, Bob Milutinovic, “Re: Attn : TPG Techs”, in aus.computers (Usenet), retrieved 23 Sep 2014:

Forms

Relateds

village idiot

Synonyms

town bike · town bicycle · village bicycle