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noun
A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, especially of a design derived from a motorcycle, usually used for recreation or farm work.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: quad, four-wheeler
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ATV, all-terrain vehicle, vehicle
History
From quad (“four (“4”)”) + bike (“bicycle”). From being a 4-wheeled quadricycle vehicle that is ridden astride like a dirt bike (“motorcycle”). The oxymoronic character of the term, via the etymonic-level contradiction of quad ("four") in juxtaposition with the bi- behind bike ("two"), is simply ignored by idiom, as such contradictions often are.
Across languages
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
