town bicycle

English

Etymology

From the jocular idea that the woman in question, like a hypothetical bicycle shared by an entire town, has had many people "take a ride" (i.e., have sexual intercourse with her).

Pronunciation

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Noun

town bicycle (plural town bicycles)

1. (slang, derogatory) A woman who is promiscuous.
   • 2010, Jill Myles, Gentlemen Prefer Succubi, Pocket Star Books, published 2010, →ISBN, page 119:

     "It's not you, my dear. A trip on the town bicycle isn't nearly as fun when everyone's already run it roughshod."

Synonyms

• town bike, village bicycle, village bike
• See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman.

Derived terms

• fandom bicycle

Translations

(derogatory) woman who is promiscuous

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 公廁／公厕 (gung¹ ci³)

  Mandarin: 公共汽車／公共汽车 (zh) (gōnggòng qìchē), 公交車／公交车 (zh) (gōngjiāochē), 插座 (zh) (chāzuò)

• Finnish: jakorasia (fi), kyläpyörä (fi)
• German: Dorfmatratze (de) f
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Eric Partridge (2005) “town bike”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1995.