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Definition: Bikers |
BikersNoun1. Originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A Biker is someone who rides a motorcycle (motorbike). This term is not usually used for someone riding a bicycle. Unfortunately it tends to imply a negative connotation. Bikers are sometimes members of a motorcycle club or gang. A biker who is a club member usually wears a leather or denim vest with patches and pins from his own club as well as others. Popular themes for patches are biker parties and meetings, as well as slogans such as "1%", "13", "FTW", and "ACAB". The most well-known bikers are the Hell's Angels. Popular Biker films are "The Wild One" and "The Wild Angels". In Germany, Bikers are also known as Rockers. The Biker is also a popular sexual fetish among gay men. As most Bikers are rather masculine and wear leather motorcycle clothing they are very attractive to leather fetishists around the world.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Biker."
Synonym: BikersSynonym: rockers (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Rich Urban Bikers (social sciences). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | She's meeting bikers. Big ones (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Coney Island Bikers (1898) Radikal Bikers (1999) Samurai Vampire Bikers From Hell (1992) Teenage Bikers (1977) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Mountain Bikers Green Mts NF, VT. Credit: USDA. |  | Mountain bikers racing in the desert. Credit: Jeanette Davis. |
 | Bikers and joggers on Boise Front trailFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Unknown. |  | Bikers on Boise FoothillsBoise Front bicyclistsFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Don Smurthwaite. |
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| "Bikers" by Harald Wittmaack Commentary: "Blurry shot done at a bike-race near Ehingen/Germany..." | "Biker_parade03" by Frank Pelligra Commentary: "Bikers riding the the Fourth parade." |
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| "Bikers" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.91% of the time. "Bikers" is used about 97 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 96.91% | 94 | 33,845 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.09% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 97 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bikers | 935 | bikers naked | 20 |
bikers choice | 157 | bikers leather | 20 |
bikers black | 60 | bikers choice helmet | 20 |
bikers dream | 59 | bikers national roundup | 19 |
bikers nude | 53 | single bikers | 18 |
bikers gay | 51 | bikers choice floorboard forward control set | 17 |
bikers wife | 38 | babe bikers | 15 |
outlaw bikers | 37 | atlanta bikers dream | 15 |
bikers black week | 34 | bikers harley | 14 |
woman bikers | 32 | bikers black weekend | 13 |
abuse against bikers child | 31 | bikers mountain | 13 |
christian bikers | 30 | bad bikers weather | 12 |
bikers christ | 24 | bikers damn | 12 |
bikers maine united | 22 | bikers movie | 12 |
bikers female | 21 | bikers picture | 12 |
bikers choice leather | 21 | bikers edge | 12 |
bikers choice chap | 21 | bikers boulevard | 10 |
bikers choice pants | 21 | bikers week | 10 |
bikers choice vest | 21 | bikers boy | 10 |
bikers choice jacket | 21 | bikers choice lid skid | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bikers"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 骑自行车的人. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ikersbay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "bikers": minibikers. (additional references) | |
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"Bikers" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bauers, Becerra, bicer, biders, bieris, Bikash, bikkies, biokarst, Bokert, bycer, Bykers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bikers" (pronounced bī"kerz) |
| 4 | -ī" k er z | hikers, strikers. |
| 3 | -k er z | acres, anchors, askers, attackers, automakers, autoworkers, conquers, cookers, backers, bakers, bankers, Barkers, Bickers, blockers, bloodsuckers, bonkers, bookers, breakers, brokers, bunkers, cankers, caretakers, carjackers, carmakers, caseworkers, checkers, clockers, clunkers, coworkers, crackers, dockers, dockworkers, dressmakers, drinkers, drugmakers, fakers, farmworkers, filmmakers, firecrackers, flickers, freethinkers, gawkers, hackers, hawkers, hijackers, homemakers, hookers, icebreakers, jokers, kickers, knickerbockers, knickers, Lakers, lawbreakers, lawmakers, leakers, linebackers, liquors, lockers, lookers, loudspeakers, makers, markers, massacres, matchmakers, metalworkers, moneymakers, monikers, moviemakers, newsmakers, nonsmokers, oddsmakers, onlookers, pacemakers, packers, parkers, peacemakers, pickers, plunkers, printmakers, quakers, rackers, rakers, rankers, rockers, seekers, shakers, shoemakers, slackers, sleepwalkers, slickers, smokers, sneakers, snickers, speakers, squeakers, stalkers, steelmakers, steelworkers, stickers, stinkers, stockbrokers, strikebreakers, suckers, takers, talkers, tankers, thinkers, toolmakers, trackers, traffickers, troublemakers, truckers, vicars, walkers, whiskers, woodpeckers, woodworkers, workers, Yonkers, younkers. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-k-r-s" | |
-1 letter: biers, biker, bikes, birks, birse, bries, brisk, keirs, kerbs, kibes, kiers, ribes, siker, skier. | |
-2 letters: bier, bike, birk, bise, bisk, brie, bris, ires, irks, keir, kerb, kibe, kier, kirs, kris, rebs, reis, ribs, rise, risk, sike, sire. | |
-3 letters: bis, ers, ire, irk, kir, reb, rei, res, rib, sei, ser, sib, sir, ski, sri. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-k-r-s" | |
+1 letter: bickers, bilkers, birkies, boskier, brisked, brisker, brisket. | |
+2 letters: bakeries, barkiest, bearskin, blinkers, brakiest, brickles, briskest, briskets, brookies, burkites, reitboks. | |
+3 letters: backfires, bearskins, bickerers, bidarkees, breakings, brickiest, briskness, brookites, disembark, firebacks, kibitzers, ninebarks, redbricks, rockabies, skibobber, snakebird. | |
+4 letters: backbiters, backslider, basketries, berkeliums, besprinkle, biomarkers, breadstick, brokerings, disembarks, drinkables, firebreaks, firebricks, inkberries, jailbreaks, karabiners, kibbitzers, kickboxers, kohlrabies, minibikers, motorbikes, riverbanks, rudbeckias, shrinkable, silverback, skibobbers, snakebirds, windbreaks. | |
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