Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A cylindrical, straight or curved steering bar, usually fitted with handles at each end, as on a bicycle. Often used in the plural.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In a bicycle or motor-cycle, the curved bar in front of the rider by which the vehicle is guided by the hands. In the motor-cycle many of the controlling devices are affixed to the handle-bar.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The curved bar connected by a shaft to the front wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle, positioned nearly horizontally in front of the rider's seat, designed to be gripped by the rider while riding, and used to steer the vehicle. Usually used in the plural.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the shaped bar used to steer a bicycle
Etymologies
- From handle + bar. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Pushing the handlebar is the most reliable, controllable, and safe method of sterring the motorcycle.”
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“The Angry Cupcake sticker on her handlebar is the latest.”
Maureen Bruno-Roy’s custom Seven Mudhoney SLX cyclocross bike
“Right below the handlebar was a small lever with R, N, D and L transmission settings.”
“He was smart to be walking it, because his handlebar was a piece of wood.”
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“The "how ya like me now" chinstroke is feminine self regard; the calf over the handlebar is a weak posture; the assbag likewise.”
“Plus, the soft foam cushion on the handlebar is a nice -- and much appreciated -- touch.”
“All that is left to do, is the mounting of the handlebar, which is as easy as one, two, three.”
“If you think you know all about the available facial hair design options, consider the strange world that lies beyond the "handlebar," the goatee and the "Fu Manchu.”
“Search for anything that springs to mind on this website, for instance 'handlebar'.”
“The "handlebar" as most people know it - grown across the top lip and then down the sides of the mouth to the chin with out connecting at the bottom - is actually known as the horseshoe, which makes much more sense.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘handlebar’.
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Chap stickies
Words associated with Chappism.
chap, brideshead revisited, jeeves, woosterian, rough shag, spigot, anarcho-dandyism, chumrade, chapette, wing-backed armchair, snood, boogie-woogie and 26 more...
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whiskers
words that describe facial hair,
some cute ones heremoustache, burnsides, bumfluff, bewhiskered, moustached, burnside, dundrearies, handlebar, imperial, kesh, beard, goatee and 82 more...
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Ute
Durable items invented by Hom. Sap.
alpenhorn, matchbox, plinth, pillow, cantilever, fulcrum, troika, cloverleaf, nib, wheelbarrow, dictabelt, cockpit and 184 more...
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Pogonology
mustache, beard, soul patch, goatee, vandyke, barbule, sideburns, cookie duster, flavor saver, mutton chops, handlebar, fu manchu and 9 more...
Tweets
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corylusavellana Caddish, wide moustache worn by RAF pilots and Chaps. Dec 29, 2008