(n.) A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.
Example Sentences:
(1) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(2) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(3) There was praise for existing programmes such as the Ferguson Youth Initiative, which gives young people the chance to earn a bike or a computer.
(4) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(5) He was on more certain statistical ground when he said that, since 2010, more than half the bike deaths in London have happened when lorries turned left across cyclists.
(6) There weren't many people out on their bikes in Harrogate over the weekend: the weather was too poor even for hardy Yorkshire folk.
(7) Raj Janagam co-founded Cycle Chalao in 2009, and the project ran for a little over a year – between Mulund train station and a nearby college – with 30 bikes and a user base of around 750.
(8) But if you provide a street environment where it’s much more egalitarian, where your granny can cycle to the shops safely and have somewhere to park her Dutch-style bike – that’s when we’ll get those kind of cyclists.
(9) A camera located in Downing Street shows Mitchell leaving 9 Downing Street and approaching the main double gates on his bike at 19.36:14 and as he stops to talk to police officers, a woman crosses on the pavement proceeding towards Trafalgar Square.
(10) A " bike for the strike " event is scheduled in Oakland on Friday.
(11) Control data were compared to data derived from a simulated triathlon (0.8-km swim, 75-min bike, and 40-min run).
(12) Matthew Golby, prosecuting, said Antwi was part of a group which surrounded the police car off Brixton Hill and he was captured on CCTV aiming his bike at the car.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Passengers arriving at the main bus station can borrow a bike all day for free.
(14) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(15) Visiting an exercise class, Mr Blair, without changing out of his suit, spent some minutes pedalling on an exercise bike for the benefit of cameramen.
(16) But the increase in people cycling does seem to be boosting bike awareness and challenging the car mentality.
(17) Cycling is a mainstream form of active transport and recreation, but the human trauma costs of bicycle riding are unacceptable,” said Tracey Gaudry, CEO of the Amy Gillett Foundation , a bike safety awareness group set up in honour of the Australian athlete who was killed in a cycling accident in Germany.
(18) A 2014 report by the US Public Interest Research Group found that young people were driving less , driving shorter distances and using more transit, biking and walking to get around.
(19) Then I tried out a fold-in-half bike called the Bickerton .
(20) Bike Nation: How Cycling Can Save the World by Peter Walker is out now.
Slapper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, slaps.
(n.) Anything monstrous; a whopper.
(a.) Alt. of Slapping
Example Sentences:
(1) Women are either shaggable or saintly (maternal, married to a male celebrity, silent), or desiccated harridans and shameless slappers.
(2) He called two female students “slappers” in public, expressed disbelief towards a disclosure of sexual assault (“girls these days, with their short skirts”) and routinely undermines his female colleagues with sexist and dismissive language in formal settings.
(3) They are a mark of the slut, the slapper, the loose woman.
(4) sketch , but what that knee-slapper lacks in laughs it makes up for in timeliness.
(5) "Do you think that I planned and plotted, or lost a wink of sleep, scheming to spend a considerable part of my life trying to identify hog-slappers, cheese-winders' clerks, or theatre fireman's night companions?"