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 n.— «“Seeing things from a bike is so different than from a cage,” he said, using the bikers’ euphemism for “car.”» —“An American tradition on Italy’s roads” by Sandra Jontz in Ciorlano, Italy Stars and Stripes Aug. 1, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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