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BIKERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bikers mean? 

BIKERS (noun)
  The noun BIKERS has 1 sense:

1. originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborersplay

  Familiarity information: BIKERS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BIKERS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

bikers; rockers

Hypernyms ("bikers" is a kind of...):

youth subculture (a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre)

Meronyms (members of "bikers"):

rocker (a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles)


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