pillion
Use Pillion in a sentence
yən noun
1.
a pad or cushion attached behind a saddle, especially as a seat for a woman.
2.
a pad, cushion, saddle, or the like, used as a passenger seat on a bicycle, motor scooter, etc.
3.
a passenger's saddle or seat behind the driver's seat on a motorcycle.
Origin:
1495–1505; < Scots Gaelic pillinn or Irish pillín, diminutive of peall skin, rug blanket, MIr pell < Latin pellis skin
1495–1505; < Scots Gaelic pillinn or Irish pillín, diminutive of peall skin, rug blanket, MIr pell < Latin pellis skin
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pillion (ˈpɪljən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a seat or place behind the rider of a motorcycle, scooter, horse, etc |
| —adv | |
| 2. | on a pillion: to ride pillion |
| [C16: from Gaelic; compare Scottish pillean, Irish pillīn couch; related to Latin pellis skin] | |
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Pillion
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| 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. |
Example sentences
To that end, the bike's gas tank is concealed beneath the rider and is accessed by flipping up the pillion seat.
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