"roadie" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɹəʊdi/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-roadie.wav [Southern-England] Forms: roadies [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊdi Etymology: From road + -ie. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|road|ie}} road + -ie Head templates: {{en-noun}} roadie (plural roadies)
  1. One of the crew for a musical group or other travelling stage production, especially a stagehand or technician. Translations (crew for travelling stage production): roadie [common-gender] (Danish), roudari (Finnish), rótari [masculine] (Icelandic), roadie (Norwegian Bokmål), roadie (Norwegian Nynorsk), plomo [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), roadie [common-gender] (Swedish), råddare (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-roadie-en-noun-2CGpmRSE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ie Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 16 18 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 63 17 14 5 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ie: 37 24 24 15 Disambiguation of 'crew for travelling stage production': 92 4 4
  2. (colloquial) A cyclist who rides on the roads rather than off-road. Tags: colloquial Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-roadie-en-noun-Aq-Mip8X Disambiguation of People: 0 79 21 0
  3. (colloquial) An alcoholic beverage for the ride, for consumption while one is driving. Tags: colloquial Translations (beer for the ride): matkakalja [beer, beverages, food, lifestyle] (Finnish), matkajuoma (english: any drink) (Finnish), cerveja sem álcool (english: non-alcoholic beer) (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-roadie-en-noun-GoG7SxR~ Disambiguation of 'beer for the ride': 0 9 91

Verb

IPA: /ɹəʊdi/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-roadie.wav [Southern-England] Forms: roadies [present, singular, third-person], roadying [participle, present], roadied [participle, past], roadied [past]
Rhymes: -əʊdi Etymology: From road + -ie. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|road|ie}} road + -ie Head templates: {{en-verb}} roadie (third-person singular simple present roadies, present participle roadying, simple past and past participle roadied)
  1. To act as a roadie
    Sense id: en-roadie-en-verb-Fop8F43K

Inflected forms

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