Meanings
plural village bikes
- UKderogatoryslangA local woman who is sexually promiscuous.
My ex wife's a bit of a village bike, does that count? :-P
2012 May 15, Bob Milutinovic, “Re: Attn : TPG Techs”, in aus.computers (Usenet), retrieved 23 Sep 20145 more examples
He said of the girl complainant: 'She was the village bike.' 'What do you mean by that?' asked the Chairman. 'Everybody rode her,' was the reply. The idiom is evidently widely diffused, and there is little profit in trying to establish who invented it […]
1983, Philip Howard, A word in your earThe local people privately called Jean's mother 'The Village Bike', on which everyone got to ride. Jean had no way of knowing whether the man who lived with them was her father; the man himself may not have known.
1988, David Cook, Crying out loudDexter wrote: > […] My charity is always extended to the local drunks of the village where I was brought up. You were the village bike then?
2003, Effervescing Elephant, “Re: Stealth aircraft over Lincs”, in uk.local.lincolnshire (Usenet)The boys nicknamed her the “village bike” and any lad who wanted affection or experience picked her up for the night.
2009, Annette J. Dunlea, Always and ForeverShe has a bit of a Village Bike reputation, and she usually wears her hair in two pigtails.
2009, Brent Crawford, Carter Finally Gets ItSynonyms: town bicycle, town bike, village bicycle
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA local woman who is sexually promiscuous.
Origin
From the joke that "everyone gets a ride" (i.e. sexual intercourse).
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village bike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/village%20bike
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