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street bike

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1959, OED Evaluation: N/A

A bicycle (in later use esp. a racing bicycle) or motorcycle designed for use on paved roads, rather than for riding across country, on racetracks, etc.

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... at one point when I was living in Diamond in ah, ah, the late eighties, I had three bikes. I had ah, an eleven-hundred C-C street-bike and a six-hundred C-C (inc) and a five-hundred C-C motor-cross bike.
A bicycle (in later use esp. a racing bicycle) or motorcycle designed for use on paved roads, rather than for riding across country, on racetracks, etc.
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Speaker 2: ... we heard "Fucking idiot!" She yelled. Speaker: I turned around and I'm like, "You talking to me or the dog?" type thing and she's all "You scared the dog," or-whatever and just to the same why he's so nervous, there was huge another bike, like a street-bike coming by on the road and ah her brother's like, "Well, that- your bike scared him, this bike's really going to scare the (inc) type thing."
A bicycle (in later use esp. a racing bicycle) or motorcycle designed for use on paved roads, rather than for riding across country, on racetracks, etc.