seatie
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]seatie (plural seaties)
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) Synonym of backie (“a ride on the back of a cycle”)
- 2015, Debbie McGowan, Raine O'Tierney, Christmas Craic and Mistletoe, page 302:
- All those years of having Katie chase after him—please, Tommy, I want a seatie—with Mum's threats—you dare put her on that bike, Thomas, and so help me... But of course he'd never let his sister on his bike.
- 2017, Hayley Long, The Nearest Faraway Place:
- 'It's not a fair race,' said Ibrahim. 'Because whoever gives you a seatie always loses.'