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boneshaker
noun- a bicycle US, 1871
Coined as a literal description of early bicycles, and remains in use despite technological advances. - I’ve rode round the whole peninsula on that bike [...] I drive as far as the Green Lodge, parks up and gets the boneshaker out the back. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 271, 2001
- a rigid-frame motorcyle, especially a rigid-frame Harley-Davidson US
- — American Speech, p. 267, December 1962: “The language of traffic policemen”
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