rat bike
n.— «Keith Bennett, 27, an Englishman now living in Lawrenceville, will be gunning for his third “Rat Bike” trophy in four years. “Everyone votes on what they think is the worst bike there.”» —“The Unapproachable Norton” by Jack Wilkinson Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Ga.) Mar. 2, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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How colors got their names, and a strange way to write. The terms blue and orange arrived in English via French, so why didn’t we also adapt the French for black and white? • Not every example of writing goes in one direction across the page...