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bikemaker

noun

Etymology

From bike + maker.

  1. inherited from maker
  2. compounded as bikemaker — “bike + maker”

Definitions

  1. A person or company which manufactures bicycles or motorbikes.

    • Indeed, it was a Watertown, Mass., bikemaker named Sterling Elliot who turned out the first sulkies with small, steel-spoked wheels and pneumatic tires in 1892.
    • Huffy Corp. this afternoon withdrew its offer in federal bankruptcy for rival bikemaker Schwinn/GT.

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