"bikelash" meaning in English

See bikelash in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: bikelashes [plural]
Etymology: Blend of bike + backlash. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|bike|backlash}} Blend of bike + backlash Head templates: {{en-noun}} bikelash (plural bikelashes)
  1. (informal) Negative or hostile reaction to cyclists, especially from motorists or law enforcement. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Cycling Synonyms: bike-lash

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for bikelash meaning in English (2.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bike",
        "3": "backlash"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of bike + backlash",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of bike + backlash.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bikelashes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bikelash (plural bikelashes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cycling",
          "orig": "en:Cycling",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 February 16, Thomas Vanderbilt, “Rage Against Your Machine”, in Outside",
          "text": "There's a feeling among many drivers that cyclists, either by their ignorance of the law or by their blatant disregard for it, are asking for trouble. […] In one sense, the so-called bikelash has little to do with transportation modes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 May 21, Danny Westneat, “Getting a handle on latest 'bikelash'”, in Seattle Times",
          "text": "I bicycled in for Bike to Work Day last week, and I saw no bikelash on such a pleasant day. But the Seattle Weekly's Nina Shapiro emailed me that the day before, she watched as a \"beefy guy\" driving a Buick got out, pushed a bicyclist against a wall and then picked up the bike and heaved it at him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 April 11, Oliver Burkeman, “Pedalling myths: the anti-bike lobby is flat out of plausible arguments”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "All are on the frontlines of what's been called the \"bikelash\", brave fighters willing to stand firm against the growing popularity of cycling across north America.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Negative or hostile reaction to cyclists, especially from motorists or law enforcement."
      ],
      "id": "en-bikelash-en-noun-UhA5~wkT",
      "links": [
        [
          "Negative",
          "negative"
        ],
        [
          "hostile",
          "hostile"
        ],
        [
          "reaction",
          "reaction"
        ],
        [
          "cyclists",
          "cyclists"
        ],
        [
          "motorist",
          "motorist"
        ],
        [
          "law enforcement",
          "law enforcement"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Negative or hostile reaction to cyclists, especially from motorists or law enforcement."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bike-lash"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bikelash"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bike",
        "3": "backlash"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of bike + backlash",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of bike + backlash.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bikelashes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bikelash (plural bikelashes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Cycling"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 February 16, Thomas Vanderbilt, “Rage Against Your Machine”, in Outside",
          "text": "There's a feeling among many drivers that cyclists, either by their ignorance of the law or by their blatant disregard for it, are asking for trouble. […] In one sense, the so-called bikelash has little to do with transportation modes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 May 21, Danny Westneat, “Getting a handle on latest 'bikelash'”, in Seattle Times",
          "text": "I bicycled in for Bike to Work Day last week, and I saw no bikelash on such a pleasant day. But the Seattle Weekly's Nina Shapiro emailed me that the day before, she watched as a \"beefy guy\" driving a Buick got out, pushed a bicyclist against a wall and then picked up the bike and heaved it at him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 April 11, Oliver Burkeman, “Pedalling myths: the anti-bike lobby is flat out of plausible arguments”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "All are on the frontlines of what's been called the \"bikelash\", brave fighters willing to stand firm against the growing popularity of cycling across north America.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Negative or hostile reaction to cyclists, especially from motorists or law enforcement."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Negative",
          "negative"
        ],
        [
          "hostile",
          "hostile"
        ],
        [
          "reaction",
          "reaction"
        ],
        [
          "cyclists",
          "cyclists"
        ],
        [
          "motorist",
          "motorist"
        ],
        [
          "law enforcement",
          "law enforcement"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Negative or hostile reaction to cyclists, especially from motorists or law enforcement."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bike-lash"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bikelash"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.