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Answer for the clue "Biker's stunt ", 7 letters:
wheelie

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Word definitions for wheelie in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A stunt where a bicycle or other vehicle is ride while it is standing only on its rear wheel or wheels. vb. (context intransitive English) To perform the stunt of riding a vehicle on its rear wheel.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
drag race In vehicle acrobatics , a wheelie , or wheelstand , is a vehicle maneuver in which the front wheel or wheels come off the ground due to sufficient torque being applied to the rear wheel or wheels, or rider motion relative to the vehicle. Wheelies ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1966, from wheel (n.) + -ie .

Usage examples of wheelie.

Willie Wheelie had been the mascot for Nirvana Tires, who made tires for specialty vehicles.

Then I looked over and saw an advertisement with Willie Wheelie in it.

Ever since that blessed day, Willie Wheelie has been my avatar, the symbol of my desire for personal freedom and expression.

Beverly had already left, and even with the door closed Charlotte could hear others on the floor yodeling cheery good-byes and rolling their wheelie suitcases down the hall as the great Thanksgiving exodus began.

My wheelie bag is down from the overhead rack, and he passes me the handle, along with my carry- on bag and purse.

We turn the street corner into a brick-walled alley crowded by wheelie bins and smelling of vagrant piss.

Dukes and the wheelie woman and half of Wembley seemed to want him to be.

An overturned wheelie bin had vomited its contents across the kitchen garden and shredded plastic bags had wrapped themselves round an ancient wisteria, flapping and rattling in the wind that scoured the south-facing wall.

He wheelies around the bar firing wisecracks and sizzles across the dance floor towards us.

After taking an awesome triple-humper that was as high as Mount Washington, he reared back and pulled a triumphant wheelie and saw the whirling spikes flash above his head in the light of the moon, clean and sharp and deadly and ready for any opponent rash enough to threaten him for the lead.

McDunn and the officers look in the packing cases and the car, and it's like they're not seeing the big black wheelie bin.

And before we invented trains, planes and wheelies - when there weren't any engines to move things - folks used horses for transportation.

Wheelies mark the deck, cause scuff marks the buffers almost can't erase, and Wheelies are traces of rebellion by patients.

Parked near the door was a line of eight yellow wheelies - small open electric carts that could carry up to six passengers or haul a trailer.

One or two wheelies full of them usually meant they'd come to kick ass.