trike

[ trahyk ]

nounInformal.

Origin of trike

1
By shortening and alteration; see bike1

Words Nearby trike

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How to use trike in a sentence

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

    Keith of the Border | Randall Parrish
  • 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.

    The Statue | Mari Wolf
  • Lately it grew harder and harder to drive, to keep the trike car on the narrow strip of pavement.

    The Statue | Mari Wolf
  • Miss Bibby went round at once to the other door and demanded “trike,” though Kate strongly advised against it.

British Dictionary definitions for trike

trike

/ (traɪk) /


noun
  1. short for tricycle

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

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