Definitions

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  • noun science fiction A motorbike capable of levitation.

Etymologies

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hover +‎ bike

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Examples

  • A huge chunk toppled free and a third hoverbike narrowly avoided it, only to lose control and go spinning into the dirt.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • By the time he got there and had hopped off his hoverbike, all the officers in the area had been alerted and had arrived.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • By the time he got there and had hopped off his hoverbike, all the officers in the area had been alerted and had arrived.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • But they had never let Butler and his posse get this close to them before, and Raynor had never had a three-hundred-plus-pound jukebox on his hoverbike before, and he was alarmed at how much it slowed him.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • Next to him, not in any way a small man but looking comparatively tiny next to the giant that was Tychus, was a shaggy-haired, bearded man who was already sitting astride a vulture hoverbike.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • A huge chunk toppled free and a third hoverbike narrowly avoided it, only to lose control and go spinning into the dirt.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • One hoverbike had already recovered and was barreling down at him.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • Next to him, not in any way a small man but looking comparatively tiny next to the giant that was Tychus, was a shaggy-haired, bearded man who was already sitting astride a vulture hoverbike.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • But they had never let Butler and his posse get this close to them before, and Raynor had never had a three-hundred-plus-pound jukebox on his hoverbike before, and he was alarmed at how much it slowed him.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • One hoverbike had already recovered and was barreling down at him.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

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