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²bike

noun, chiefly Scottish

Synonyms and Antonyms of BIKE

a great number of persons or creatures massed together <the boisterous bike that annually descends upon Edinburgh for the Fringe>

Synonyms army, bike [chiefly Scottish], cram, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, press, rout, scrum, swarm, throng

Related Words masses, millions, rabble, rabblement, riffraff; gaggle; heap, mountain, pile; jam, logjam

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