pocket bike

pocket bike
 n.— «So-called “toy” mini-motorcycles, called pocket bikes, have been banned from public roads and all parking lots in Peachtree City.» —“Pocket bikes kicked to curb in Peachtree City” by John Munford The Citizen (Fayetteville, Ga.) July 24, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Further reading

It’s All in a Dezzick

The word dezzick is defined in an 1875 dictionary of the Sussex dialect as “a day’s work.” This is part of a complete episode.

Related

Sleepy Winks (episode #1584)

It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton’s best-known novel. Today the annual Bulwer-Lytton Contest asks contestants for fanciful first sentences that are similarly...

Recent posts