town bicycle
- noun
- Offensive
:
puta del pueblo (ofensivo)
- Rumors spread quickly, and soon everyone was calling her the town bicycle.
Examples
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Don't treat her like a town bicycle!
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Everyone knows she's the town bicycle.
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He disliked being labeled the town bicycle after his breakups.
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Though people whispered about him being the town bicycle, he didn't care about their opinions.
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Rumors spread quickly, and soon everyone was calling her the town bicycle.
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He disliked being labeled the town bicycle after his breakups.
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Though people whispered about him being the town bicycle, he didn't care about their opinions.
Synonyms
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An insulting name for a person, often a woman, who many people think has sex with many others
A person people in a community say has many sexual partners
Antonyms
How Promiscuous
Surface Forms
Morphology
town + bicycle
The literal meanings of 'town' and 'bicycle' (a settlement and a two-wheeled vehicle) give no direct clue to the idiomatic sense 'a person regarded as promiscuous.' Any metaphorical idea of a bicycle being 'used by many' is culturally marked and not reliably inferable by an average B1 learner. Because this is slang/idiomatic and the semantic shift is unpredictable without exposure, it should be classified as opaque.
Etymology
The phrase town bicycle may come from the image of a bicycle in a small town that everyone borrows and rides. So someone called the town bicycle is seen as 'someone who has many romantic or sexual partners'.