Citations:town bicycle

Noun: "(slang, derogatory) a woman considered promiscuous"

 * 1969 — James Robson, Backward to the Front of the Day, Doubleday (1969), page 65:
 * Olga the prostitute, the town bicycle, went to the park.
 * 1988 — Martha Harron, Don Harron: A Parent Contradiction, Collins (1988), ISBN 0002154404, page 56:
 * "She's the town bicycle! Anyone can ride!"
 * 1989 — Hugh Leonard, Out After Dark, A. Deutsch (1989), ISBN 9780233984742, page 98:
 * A fellow might as easily marry a girl whose oul' one had been getting her oats morning, noon and night, tongue hanging out for it, the town bicycle, like, only she never got caught.'
 * 1991 — Peter Lovesey, The Last Detective, Doubleday (1991), ISBN 9780553296198, page 219:
 * 'She began by asking me who I thought I was kidding by driving around in a Mercedes when I was really the town bicycle.'
 * 1992 — Sandra Birdsell, The Chrome Suite, McClelland & Stewart (1995), ISBN 077101452X, page 200:
 * Even if Shirley was the town bicycle, as Mel so succinctly put it, there was a whole lot we had between us that never needed to be said.
 * 2001 — Eric Wright, Death of a Hired Man, Thomas Dunne Books (2001), ISBN 0312268769, page 112:
 * There weren't any whores in Peterborough then, still aren't officially as far as that goes, not real Jarvis streetwalkers. No, she wasn't the town whore, or even the town bicycle.
 * 2002 — Tom Nestor, The Blue Pool, Collins Press (2002), ISBN 9781903464175, page 258
 * 'Well, I wasn't, was I? Trust our holy mother church to do the right thing, even for the town bicycle! Did she qualify for sacred ground? You fellows didn't put her down on the windward side, outside the graveyard walls? Or was that just a rumour I heard?'
 * 2002 — Edna O'Brien, In the Forest, Mariner Books (2003), ISBN 0618197303, page 116:
 * "Bollocks. Town bicycle, every mother."
 * 2007 — Peter Robinson, Friend of the Devil, McLelland & Stewart (2007), ISBN 9781551991719, page 149:
 * "And I'm sorry if I implied in any way that your late daughter was the town bicycle. That wasn't my intention.
 * 2009 — Hannah Dennison, Scoop!, Berkley Prime Crime (2009), ISBN 9780425226438, page 174:
 * And anyway, wasn't it better to be the Ice Maiden of Gipping than the town bicycle?
 * 2010 — Jill Myles, Gentlemen Prefer Succubi, Pocket Star Books (2010), ISBN 9781416588146, page 119:
 * "It's not you, my dear. A trip on the town bicycle isn't nearly as fun when everyone's already run it roughshod."
 * 2011 — Jill Kargman, "A Letter to My Crappy One-Bedroom", in Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut: Essays and Observations, Pirates and Princesses (2011), ISBN 9780062007193, page 91:
 * Then the gal directly upstairs moved out (got married, migrated to the 'burbs) and in came cocaine-snorting, Moby-blaring Melanie, the town bicycle — and I mean every guy in New York had a ride.
 * 2011 — Elle Kennedy, Welcome to Paradise, Samhain Publishing (2011), ISBN 9781609285050, page 36:
 * Nobody was pointing and laughing at her. No low taunts about her mother being the town bicycle.
 * 2011 — Claire Kolling, Babe's Letter, Xlibris Corporation (2011), ISBN 9781456801830, page 15:
 * "Cause she's not a town bicycle like Jessica McSLUT over there. C'mon she parties, she's a down girl for anything, she's athletic, her friends are hot —"