village bicycle
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- noun
- Offensive
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puta del pueblo
- So in his yearbook, Kavanaugh went out of his way to portray this woman as the village bicycle by implying that him and all of his football teammates had slept with her.
Examples
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In our small town, she is known as the village bicycle, as many people have dated her.
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He referred to her as the village bicycle, suggesting that she had been involved with multiple men.
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Gossip spread quickly, and soon everyone was calling her the village bicycle for her many relationships.
Synonyms
A person who has had romantic or sexual relationships with many people
A person people in a community say has many sexual partners
How Promiscuous
- Offensive
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9.9
- NSFW
Surface Forms
Morphology
village + bicycle
The derogatory sexual meaning cannot be derived from the literal meanings of 'village' (small community) and 'bicycle' (a vehicle); the phrase is a culture-specific slang metaphor likening a person to an object used by many. This idiomatic, pejorative sense is unpredictable for a B1 learner who only knows the constituent words, so it is opaque.
Etymology
Village bicycle comes from the image of one bicycle in a small village that everyone borrows. If everyone rides the same bike, it seems to belong to the whole village, so people used the picture to mean 'available to many people', which is a rude and unfair label.