push-bike

See also: pushbike, and push bike

English

Noun

push-bike (plural push-bikes)

1. Alternative form of pushbike
   • 1919, The Motorcycle Illustrated, volume 15, New York, N.Y.: Motorcycle Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 15:

     In England I learned to ride what the Australians call a push-bike, and spent many week-end leaves, and one four days' leave, riding in the South of England and Wales. [...] Today, I wished the push-bike was in its old place—especially when three boys sailed past on push-bikes and offered to give me some "gas."

   • 2004, New Statesman, volume 133, London: New Statesman Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 1:

     It wasn't long before Californian youngsters started turning out customised push-bikes, mimicking the grown-up motorbikes in the fast lane. The fad of bicycle polo spawned a push-bike with a big fat seat, which became a backyard classic.

Verb

push-bike (third-person singular simple present push-bikes, present participle push-biking, simple past and past participle push-biked)

1. Alternative form of pushbike
   • 1913, Surveyor, volume 43, London: [Taylor & Francis?], →OCLC, page 1001, column 2:

     It makes me miserable when I think of the number of poor surveyors still push-biking their daily round.

   • 1932, Herbert N. Smith, “English Personalities”, in Year Book of Optometry, New York, N.Y.: New York State Optometric Association, →OCLC, page 249:

     Dr. Smith is making a tour of the world "push-biking" from place to place, forwarding whatever he finds interesting along his travels.

   • 1994, Kingsley Amis, You Can’t Do Both, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2004, →ISBN, page 318:

     Apart from a wireless-repair van parked a few yards off and a vicar's-wife type, energetically push-biking past in bright yellow oilskins, the streets were deserted.

   • 1996, Paul [J.] Marriott, Yvonne Argent, The Last Days of T. E. Lawrence: A Leaf in the Wind, Brighton, East Sussex, Portland, Or.: Alpha Press, →ISBN, page 64:

     It was cloudy, cool and misty as he [Thomas Edward Lawrence] push-biked up the long hill into Elsfield village.