Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bicycle that can be pedaled in ten different gears.
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- adjective of a bicycle Having ten
gears
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Examples
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“Screw the middle class!” all the time, the only class left are the mega-estate loungers, who always recieve a promptety-prompt tax cut for doing nothing but tinkering with their ten-speed car collection.
Think Progress » Army Secretary says Gates has placed a de facto moratorium on DADT discharges. 2010
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“Screw the middle class!” all the time, the only class left are the mega-estate loungers, who always recieve a promptety-prompt tax cut for doing nothing but tinkering with their ten-speed car collection.
Think Progress » Army Secretary says Gates has placed a de facto moratorium on DADT discharges. 2010
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She wears pink panties and rides a ten-speed for exercise.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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“Screw the middle class!” all the time, the only class left are the mega-estate loungers, who always recieve a promptety-prompt tax cut for doing nothing but tinkering with their ten-speed car collection.
Think Progress » Army Secretary says Gates has placed a de facto moratorium on DADT discharges. 2010
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I did, however, have a ten-speed bike, a gorilla's legs and a teenager's hormones and so riding twenty kilometers and climbing a 200-meter tall, 30-degree slope to visit the woman of my dreams was no biggie.
It's All Downhill From Here Ulysses 2010
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She wears pink panties and rides a ten-speed for exercise.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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It is when I stop that I have to start a slow pedal uphill again, with the front wheel of my ten-speed constantly wobbling and pulling me toward the ditches on either side of the road.
Women Grow Business » Essential for Business: 5 Ways to Overcome Distraction 2009
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It is when I stop that I have to start a slow pedal uphill again, with the front wheel of my ten-speed constantly wobbling and pulling me toward the ditches on either side of the road.
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It is when I stop that I have to start a slow pedal uphill again, with the front wheel of my ten-speed constantly wobbling and pulling me toward the ditches on either side of the road.
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I did, however, have a ten-speed bike, a gorilla's legs and a teenager's hormones and so riding twenty kilometers and climbing a 200-meter tall, 30-degree slope to visit the woman of my dreams was no biggie.
Archive 2010-04-01 Ulysses 2010
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