Definition of "ten-speed" [ten-speed]

• A bicycle that can be pedaled in ten different gears. (noun)

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• "It is when I stop that I have to start a slow pedal uphill again, with the front wheel of my ten-speed constantly wobbling and pulling me toward the ditches on either side of the road."
• "She wears pink panties and rides a ten-speed for exercise."
• "I did, however, have a ten-speed bike, a gorilla's legs and a teenager's hormones and so riding twenty kilometers and climbing a 200-meter tall, 30-degree slope to visit the woman of my dreams was no biggie."