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US
/ˈpɪɫjən/
]
[ UK /pˈɪliən/ ]
[ UK /pˈɪliən/ ]
NOUN
- a seat behind the rider of a horse or motorbike etc.
How To Use pillion In A Sentence
- The killer then sped off on the pillion seat of a motorbike and, with his accomplice, drove to a quiet neighbourhood and burned the bike in an obviously pre-identified secluded location.
- The bride was riding pillion on Jim's bike while Peggy was sitting primly in the only sidecar in the convoy. MAN AND WIFE
- He said he looked out his window and saw the pillion passenger throw something at the internet shop before speeding off.
- As a learner rider you must not carry a pillion passenger.
- The men were questioned about an alleged incident in which a motorcycle pillion passenger fired shots into a garden at The Oval in Firth Park.
- As I rode pillion with the boy I loved, I sang it into the wind just for the joy of it. Family life
- His pillion passenger was arrested but he ran off, the bench heard.
- On a walk, at the theatre, in a bus, at a restaurant or a roadside joint, or even when a stranger, who is given a lift by you, rides on the pillion, people are strangely silent.
- Police caught Leroy, aged 21, and his pillion passenger after pursuing them through the streets of West Wickham and Lewisham.
- A pillion was a padded cushion with straps which sometimes had on one side a sort of platform-stirrup. Home Life in Colonial Days