ride pillion

present singular third person rides pillion · participle present riding pillion · past rode pillion · participle past ridden pillion

1. intransitivetransitiveTo travel on the back seat of a motorcycle.

   Bike riders swarm through rush-hour traffic on Friday and clash with police after mayor targets passengers riding pillion

   2018 January 26, Joe Parkin Daniel, “Colombia motorbike ban: Bogotá mayor forbids pillion riders in bid to curb crime”, in The Guardian

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   The Mafia has set up a school for teenage killers in the southern Sicilian countryside, where pupils as young as 11 are taught to shoot, assemble weapons and ride pillion on motor-scooters.

   1999 August 16, Philip Willan, “Mafia sets up crime academy to train child assassins”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms: pillion, ride bitch