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▪ I. bike, n.1 north. dial.|baɪk|
Also 5–9 byke, 6 byik, byk, 8 beik.
[Etymology unknown. The sense ‘bees' nest’ is the original; hence a conjecture that it represents an OE. béoc, contr. from *béowíc ‘bee-dwelling,’ but the phonetic repr. of that would have been beke, beek. The sense ‘building’ (4) is apparently erroneous; some, assuming it to be the original, compare big, bike with dig, dike.]
1. A nest of wasps, hornets, or wild bees, as distinct from the hive or skep of domestic bees. Also, the whole nestful of bees; a swarm.
a1300Cursor M. 76 Suetter..þon hony o bike. c1460Towneley Myst. 325 Wormes shalle in you brede as bees dos in the byke. a1500MS. Cott. Calig. A. ij. 109 (Halliw.) A byke of waspes bredde in his nose. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 271 Ane tod was ouirset with ane bike of fleis. a1758Ramsay Poems (1844) 89 Like bumbees frae their bykes. 1790Burns Tam O'Shanter, As bees bizz out wi' angry fyke, When plundering herds assail their byke. 1883Black Black Bothy v, They had thoroughly dug out that wasps' byke.
2. fig. A place likened to a bees' nest, e.g. a subterranean retreat or ‘hole,’ a well-filled storehouse.
1513Douglas æneis viii. iv. 26 Ȝone fendlych hole..A hellis byke, quhair sonnis beme nevyr schane. 1806R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 293 (Jam.) Nocht but a house-wife was wantin' To plenish his weel foggit byke.
3. fig. Applied contemptuously to a swarm of people; a teeming crowd, a ‘crew.’
1552Lyndesay Monarche 5803 In that court sall cum mony one Off the blak byik of Babilone. 1785Burns Jolly Beggars, The glowrin' byke. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xii, A bonny bike there's o' them! 1818― Rob Roy xxvi, A bike o' the maist lawless unchristian limmers that ever disturbed a douce, quiet..neighbourhood.
†4. ? ‘A building, a habitation.’ Jamieson. Obs. (But the quotation may mean ‘populous centre,’ or ‘swarm of men.’)
c1440Gaw & Gologras. ii. viii, Mony burgh, mony bour, mony big bike; mony kynrik to his clame cumly to knaw.
†5. (See quot.) Obs. or local.
1771Pennant Tour Scotl. (1794) 202 The corn is thrashed out and preserved in the chaff in bykes, which are stacks in shape of bee-hives, thatched quite round.
▪ II. bike, n.2|baɪk|
1. Colloq. abbrev. of bicycle. Also used for motor bike (see motor n. 6).
1882Wheelman I. 189 Much I should like To know why you..take such a header from off your bike. 1886W. Raleigh Let. 8 Oct. (1926) I. 96 The people..dress in European fashion and go about with bikes and parasols. 1913G. B. Shaw Let. 20 Mar. in Corresp. B. Shaw & Mrs. P. Campbell (1952) 98 In the morning I brave the bike [i.e. motor-bicycle] at last. 1924T. E. Lawrence Let. 3 Mar. in J. Dunbar Mrs. G.B.S. (1963) xvii. 269 The bike [i.e. motor-bicycle] was raw & new, a man-killer. I'm afraid to death of it. 1939T. S. Eliot Fam. Reunion ii. i, So I slipped along on my bike. 1968Guardian 2 Apr. 5/3 The ceremonial riding of the last Automobile Association motor⁓cycle patrol combination..took place yesterday... ‘The bikes were fine and ideally suited to the times in which they served,’ Inspector Hatfield said.
b. to get off one's bike (usu. in negative contexts), to get rattled, to get annoyed. Austral. and N.Z. colloq.
1939X. Herbert Capricornia xxxiv. 521 ‘I tell you I saw no-one.’ ‘Don't get off your bike, son. I know you're tellin' lies.’ 1943J. A. W. Bennett in Amer. Speech XVIII. 90 ‘Don't get off your bike’ (from ‘don't get off your horse’, via a music-hall song?) means ‘don't get rattled, excited’. 1944J. H. Fullarton Troop Target ix. 75 Don't get off your bike, Jock.
c. In dismissive slang phr. on your bike!, go away, ‘push off’; now also with implication that the hearer should busy himself with something, ‘shake a leg’.
The latter implication was popularized by a speech given by Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit at the Conservative Party Conference in October 1981, in which he pointed out that his father had not rioted in the 1930s when unemployed, but had ‘got on his bike and looked for work’.
1967Listener 2 Mar. 299/3 Next time we'll have on your bike and choc-ice and other new mintings. 1980J. Gardner Garden of Weapons ii. xi. 219 ‘On your bike then, son,’ one of the policemen told him{ddd}He couldn't take any pictures of that particular building. 1981Times 4 Feb. 14/1 ‘On your bike, Khomeini’, the crowd shouted outside the Iranian Embassy during the siege. 1983Economist 22 Oct. 25 He ‘got on his bike’ and looked for work. ‘On yer bike, Tebbit!’ became the slogan of right-to-work marchers, to the delight of Mr Tebbit's supporters. 1985Punch 16 Oct. 44/3 On your bike Jake, I said, this joke has gone far enough, when I caught him taking huge slices from the fridge.
2. a. attrib.
1899A. C. Gunter M.S. Bradford Special ii. xiv. 185 The ting-ting-ting of bike bells. 1951E. Coxhead One Green Bottle vi. 173 If I climbed to please you, you'd have to..do a few bike-rides to please me. 1958Betjeman Coll. Poems 133 As slow the weary clergyman subsides Tired with his bike-ride from the parish church.
b. Special Comb. bikeway orig. N. Amer. = cycleway s.v. cycle n. 12.
1967Britannica Bk. of Year (U.S.) 802/1 *Bikeway, a thoroughfare (as in a park) restricted to bicycles. 1971Daily Tel. 4 Oct. 4/8 The bikeways have been labelled a dangerous fraud by a group called ‘bike for a better city’. 1974Globe & Mail (Toronto) 6 Sept. 5/1 It was explained at the city parks committee that the bikeway system is composed entirely of main routes without feeder pathways from the midtown to the downtown area. 1978Watson & Gray Penguin Bk. Bicycle vi. 276 There is a similar kind of contrast between American and British attitudes to ‘bikeways’. 1983Metro (Auckland) Feb. 68/2 Basically the bikeway was already there; the Council simply painted a stripe down the centre of the old footpath.
Hence bike v.2 intr., to ride a bike; also to bike it. So ˈbiker, ˈbiking.
1883Wheelman I. 336 Nature had rallied all her forces for one grand attack on us three poor, miserable ‘bikers’. Ibid., We very modestly declined, informing them that ‘biking’ and drinking are inconsistent. 1895Daily News 10 Sept. 7/1 Young girls..who are learning to ‘bike’. 1895Westm. Gaz. 14 Oct. 7/2 The ‘biking’ craze seems to grow... Lady Warwick..was one of the ‘bikers’. 1897R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xix, The other..can use his revolver—which cannot be done by single bikers. 1901W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. her Mother to Eliz. vi. 25 Daisy biked over to Exeter this morning with Mr. Frame. 1931M. Franklin Old Blastus of Bandicoot xv. 188 ‘How did you come?’ ‘I biked it from the turn-off.’ 1940Auden Another Time 74 She was biking through a field of corn. 1960Betjeman Summoned by Bells v. 48 All that was crumbling, picturesque and quaint..sent me biking off..for Architecture bound.
▸ slang (orig. Austral.) (derogatory). With allusion to ride v. 3, ride v. 16. A notoriously promiscuous woman.
Usually (esp. in earlier use) with modifying adjective, as office, village, etc. See also town bike n. at town n. Additions
1945S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. 123 A willing girl is sometimes described as an office bike, a town bike, etc. 1965L. Haylen Big Red 186 The Socialist..whose wife now had openly become the ‘village bike’. 1984L. J. Hindle Dragon Fall 20 A word that would properly describe [her]... Promiscuous, lewd, risqué, and/or bike never seemed to fit. 1993T. Hawkins Pepper xi. 231 Now her skin's cleared, the condescending bike really reckons she's something. The problem being, of course, she's right.
▸ bike lane n. chiefly N. Amer. = bicycle lane n. at bicycle n. Additions.
1970N.Y. Times 17 Sept. 1/6 Sid Davidoff, an assistant to the Mayor, said that a special *bike lane on an avenue—not necessarily Fifth Avenue—was likely by next summer. 1999Guardian 7 June ii. 11/1 The ubiquitous discontinuous bike lanes suddenly pitch a cyclist going at top speed into general traffic.
▸ bike messenger n. orig. U.S. = bicycle messenger n. at bicycle n. Additions.
1936Washington Post 31 Jan. 18/3 He saw his first Harvard-Yale football battle as a 14-year-old *bike messenger from the sidelines to a Springfield, Mass., newspaper office. 2001Village Voice (N.Y.) 4 Dec. 42/4 A group of bike messengers, all rigged out in expanding fabrics and straps in that wind-riding bike messenger way, lament the state of their profession.
▸ bike path n. chiefly N. Amer. = bicycle path n. at bicycle n. Additions.
1896Washington Post 20 Nov. 7/4 (heading) Bike path of 40 miles... Project to connect Baltimore and Washington. 1994Runner's World Feb. 37/1 The looping bike path along Mission Bay has it all: water views, ocean breezes, gorgeous sunrises and sunsets and lots of running company.
▪ III. bike, v.1 Sc.
[f. bike n.1]
To swarm like bees.
1805A. Scott Poems 16 (Jam.) The lads about me biket.
▪ IV. bike
obs. form of beak v. |