"fixie" meaning in English

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          "text": "A number of couriers in NYC use `fixies' -- fixed-gear bikes with no brakes.",
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          "ref": "2013, Gordon Young, Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City, page 107:",
          "text": "Coming from San Francisco, where gentrification swept through neighborhoods faster than hipster trends like fixies, tattoos, and retro eighties wardrobes, I didn't think Erin had anything to worry about.",
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          "ref": "2014 April 12, Claire Martin, “How a bicycle maker saw the light, and found its balance”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "[F]ixed-gear bikes, or \"fixies,\" cycles that have one speed and are built without the free-wheel equipment that keeps a regular bicycle's pedals stationary while the tires are in motion.",
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        "A fixed-gear bicycle."
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        "(informal) A fixed-gear bicycle."
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          "sense": "bicycle without a freewheel",
          "word": "fixipyörä"
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          "word": "basikal lajak"
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          "ref": "2021 October 11, Editorial staff, “SOG 2022 catalog contains brand new blades and wild line expansions”, in Knife News, retrieved 2023-05-15:",
          "text": "Among the other fixed blades en route is the Aegis FX. As the name indicates this is a fixie version of SOG's renovated Aegis folder, which debuted at the beginning of 2020.",
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          "ref": "2022 October 19, Alone, “Horizontal Belt Sheath to fit...”, in BladeForums, retrieved 2023-05-15:",
          "text": "In my humble opinion, a great horizontal Kydex sheath is the ONLY way to make a fixie disappear on your person.",
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        "A fixed-blade knife."
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        "(informal) A fixed-blade knife."
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "Fixie"
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