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trike

[ trahyk ]

noun

, Informal.


trike

/ traɪk /

noun

  1. short for tricycle
  2. a microlight aircraft with three fixed wheels for landing and take-off


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Word History and Origins

Origin of trike1

By shortening and alteration; bike 1

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Example Sentences

And why should those border desperadoes have followed, through sixty miles of desolation, to trike him down?

I tiptoed downstairs and out the front door to where the trike car was parked, and started for the village a mile to the west.

Lately it grew harder and harder to drive, to keep the trike car on the narrow strip of pavement.

Miss Bibby went round at once to the other door and demanded “Trike,” though Kate strongly advised against it.

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