ape hangers

ape hangers

plural noun Slang.
a pair of very high, angled handlebars on some customized motorcycles.

Origin:
1960–65

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ape hangers definition


  1. n.
    long steering handles on a bicycle or motorcycle. : Who is that guy riding the bike with ape hangers?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Ape hangers is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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