motorcycle

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
22
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈməʊtəˌsaɪkəl/
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/ˈməʊtəˌsaɪkəl/ · /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/ · [ˈmoʊɾɚˌsaɪkl̩] · /ˈmoʊtɚsɪk(ə)l/

Definition of motorcycle

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.
    “Her big mission is to recover the precious Blue Star (a glowing rock in a box), which leads to a Western shoot-out, a space-age motorcycle gang, and an unamusing Darth Vader-esque villain.”
    “Vern rubbed her hands along the motorcycles, admiring their size and power, their silver and black sleekness.”
    “Her breakout was the 2017 production “Nate” (available as a Netflix special) in which she played a toxic, handsy bro who drove a motorcycle onstage, guzzling beers, groping audience members and creating chaos.”
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noun

  1. An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.
    “Her big mission is to recover the precious Blue Star (a glowing rock in a box), which leads to a Western shoot-out, a space-age motorcycle gang, and an unamusing Darth Vader-esque villain.”
    “Vern rubbed her hands along the motorcycles, admiring their size and power, their silver and black sleekness.”
    “Her breakout was the 2017 production “Nate” (available as a Netflix special) in which she played a toxic, handsy bro who drove a motorcycle onstage, guzzling beers, groping audience members and creating chaos.”

verb

  1. (intransitive)To ride a motorcycle.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From motor + cycle, from the Motorcyclette produced in 1897 by the French Werner Frères et Cie.

Words you can make from motorcycle

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7-letter words

2 words

6-letter words

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4-letter words

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2-letter words

17 words

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