Talk:village bike

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village bike

In WT:RFV#village bike (which is passing), someone opined that this could be a sum of parts. I don't think so. --Dan Polansky (talk) 06:16, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

• Keep This is, I'm pretty sure, the original term that other similar uses of bicycle are based on, so it passes the Jiffy test. At any rate, it's not just used for "promiscuous woman in a village". There are hits for "village bike" in Manchester and Dublin (see the reference to Connolly Station). Smurrayinchester (talk) 09:14, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
• Keep. A village bike has two legs, not two wheels. Donnanz (talk) 10:38, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
• Keep per Donnanz Purplebackpack89 13:21, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
• Keep of course. ---> Tooironic (talk) 13:59, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Move to keep immediately as no realistic prospect of deletion. Renard Migrant (talk) 14:39, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

• RFD kept per consensus. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:49, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

RFV discussion: September–December 2014

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village bike

Alleggedly a local woman who sleeps with many men. Any attesting quotations as per WT:ATTEST? --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:21, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

• Here's one. Here's another, though it's a little mentiony. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 19:31, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Tangential point: this might be SOP, since one can also speak of a "bike" (promiscuous woman/girl), a "town bike" (promiscuous woman/girl in a town) or a "school bike" (promiscuous woman/girl at a school), etc. - -sche (discuss) 17:51, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

I definitely consider this (and its variants) to be idiomatic. The idea is that the person in question is like a bike shared by an entire village ("everyone gets a ride"). I don't think it always literally refers to a woman who lives in a village and is considered promiscuous within said village. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 22:46, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Even if a woman who acquires this title, as a result of her behaviour, doesn't live in a village, the term may still have village origins. Donnanz (talk) 12:44, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

I added some citations but the quality is probably variable. I'll leave it to you guys. Equinox ◑ 01:37, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

• RFV passed: quotations at village bike. They seem good enough. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:16, 6 December 2014 (UTC)