village bike
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He said of the girl complainant: 'She was the village bike.' 'What do you mean by that?' asked the Chairman. 'Everybody rode her,' was the reply. The idiom is evidently widely diffused, and there is little profit in trying to establish who invented it […]"
- "The local people privately called Jean's mother 'The Village Bike', on which everyone got to ride. Jean had no way of knowing whether the man who lived with them was her father; the man himself may not have known."
- "Dexter wrote: > […] My charity is always extended to the local drunks of the village where I was brought up. You were the village bike then?"
- "The boys nicknamed her the “village bike” and any lad who wanted affection or experience picked her up for the night."
- "She has a bit of a Village Bike reputation, and she usually wears her hair in two pigtails."
- "My ex wife's a bit of a village bike, does that count? :-P"
Etymology
Usage
- British usage
- Derogatory
- Slang