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backie ride

backie ride

9.6
A ride sitting behind someone on a bicycle or motorbike
  • noun
  • Australian
translation icon : paseo en la parte trasera
  • We laughed as I tried to balance during my first backie ride through the city.

Examples

  • She gave her little brother a backie ride home after school.

  • Getting a backie ride from a friend was the easiest way to get across town.

  • I love taking a backie ride on sunny days.

  • Can we go for a backie ride later?

  • She gave her little brother a backie ride home after school.

  • Getting a backie ride from a friend was the easiest way to get across town.

  • We laughed as I tried to balance during my first backie ride through the city.

Surface Forms

backie ride singular
backie rides plural

Morphology

backie + ride

The core meaning ('a ride on the back') is compositional from back + ride, so a learner who recognises 'back' and 'ride' can plausibly infer a passenger ride on the rear of a bicycle/motorbike. However, 'backie' is a colloquial/dialectal formation (‑ie suffix) not listed in the dictionary and the slangy morphology reduces predictability for a B1 learner, making the transparency only partial.

Etymology

Backie ride likely comes from adding the friendly ending '-ie' to back to make backie, plus the word ride for a trip on a bike or motorbike. So backie ride means 'a ride on the back of a bicycle or motorbike'.