(n.) A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was the time he met Steve McQueen in Cornwall in 1970 and joined him as a pillion passenger on a spontaneous four-day off-road motorbike trip, staying in "Devonshire country inns", during which bonding experience McQueen revealed to him, as he had to no one else, his violence toward his first wife, the criminality of his childhood and his premonitions of death (a story which, 40 years on, forms the basis of Steve McQueen: Living on the Edge , recently lucratively serialised in the Sunday Times ).
(2) The pillion passenger got off and repeatedly stabbed Appleton in front of startled children.
(3) Of the fatalities 30 were operators of the motorcycle, 11 pillion passengers and 8 counterparts.
(4) They involved cyclists (38.3%), pillion passengers on cycles (1.9%), pedestrians (29.3%), motorcar drivers (7.8%), motorcar passengers (3.6%), passengers entering or leaving a vehicle (7.3%), mopedists (6.8%), motorcyclists (3.5%), and "others" (1.6%).
(5) These data are consistent with the concept previously proposed (Pillion, D.J., and Czech, M.P.
(6) I suspect a lot of people will write Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood off as a vacuous game about a vacuous person, using a cynical business model that preys on stupid players who wouldn’t know a “proper game” if it snogged them on the pillion.
(7) The results advocate that the law should restrict alcohol consumption by pillion passengers as well as by the motorcycle operator.
(8) In simultaneous and identical attacks, two motorcycles pulled alongside two cars in different parts of Tehran, the pillion passenger clamped a magnetic bomb to the door next to their intended victim and sped away.
(9) Riding pillion on their Aprilla scooters, their faces covered with silver and black crash helmets, the two teenagers screech to a halt outside an electronics shop.
(10) Straight-backed women carry goods to trade on their heads as they have always done, children shout with laughter under a water tap, men talk on street corners and motorcycles with paying pillion passengers weave between the honking cars.
(11) The pillion passenger stuck a charge to the door next to the chemist, which detonated as the motorcyclist drove off.
(12) Fifty-two per cent could ride a motorcycle, a further 13% intended to learn, 22% had driven on-road, and 60% had ridden as pillion passengers on-road.
(13) At one point, we manage to hitch a pillion ride on a motorbike ridden by another player, generating some excellent driving-and-shooting action – thoroughly satisfying until the driver took us way off course.
(14) The motorcycle with the pillion passenger, the magnetic bomb and the lifeless body left in the car.
(15) Furthermore a limitation in the right to carry a pillion passenger should be considered, and the operator of the motorcycle carrying a pillion passenger should be held responsible for the passenger wearing a helmet.
(16) In all cases where a pillion passenger was killed, the operator of the motorcycle had a BAC greater than 0.08%.
(17) Chibok lay at the end of the dust road, and over the next 10 days, she rode a motorbike pillion across its 10 wards, trying to persuade one family in each district to accept a scholarship for their traumatised daughter.
(18) Significantly more males than females were riders (P less than 0.001) and had ridden as pillion passengers (P less than 0.05).
(19) "They come into the City from north London at night down the backways and alleys to avoid CCTV cameras, they operate between 12 and 2am and ride pillion," said Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jack, of the City of London police.
(20) 63.6% (21 cases) were due to road traffic accidents of whom 33% (11 cases) were motorcyclists or pillion riders and 30.3% (10 cases) were drivers or passengers of four wheel vehicles such as cars and vans.
Zillion
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Anyway, what happened to inserting fantastic zillion-Euro-buyout-clauses nobody (bar Real Madrid, maybe) would ever be willing to trigger?
(2) Rays 1 - Red Sox 5, bottom of the 4th Stephen Drew, 0-zillion against David Price, is up next.
(3) So when you see your children taking a zillion photos of things that you would never take a picture of, it’s because they’re using photographs to talk,” said Snapchat’s chief executive, Evan Spiegel, in a recent video posted online to explain the app to parents.
(4) Star Wars: The Force Awakens is merely the ultimate iteration of this formula, gussied up with the aid of the zillion new online platforms for advertising, fan-stoking and tie-in merchandising (something that didn’t really come into play until the widely derided cuddly toys of Return of the Jedi in 1983).
(5) I think people inside Apple thought, ‘Fine, he’s making us zillions.
(6) And that's not rocket science, it won't cost zillions of dollars.
(7) You can research and read for a million years and a zillion books, but it doesn’t make it happen in front of a camera.
(8) One source said: "People may say we're going soft on business, but we're getting in zillions in tax."
(9) If we spend a zillion dollars defending Wimbledon and terrorists blow up a different sporting event, that's money wasted.
(10) There were zillions of examples of this on the London fashion week catwalks, but the winning ones were at Antonio Berardi and at Christopher Kane .
(11) Washing your face can be an act of pollution if you use a cleaner that contains zillions of plastic microbeads for exfoliation.