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MOPED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does moped mean?
• MOPED (noun)
The noun MOPED has 1 sense:
1. a motorbike that can be pedaled or driven by a low-powered gasoline engine
Familiarity information: MOPED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A motorbike that can be pedaled or driven by a low-powered gasoline engine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("moped" is a kind of...):
minibike; motorbike (small motorcycle with a low frame and small wheels and elevated handlebars)
Context examples
He moped after her departure from Holdernesse Hall, and it was for this reason that the Duke desired to send him to my establishment.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They would have talked to me too, but I held back, and moped in my corner; scared by their love-making and hilarity, though it was far from boisterous, and almost wondering that no judgement came upon them for their hardness of heart.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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