noun
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A pad behind the saddle of a horse for a second rider.
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A similar second saddle on a motorcycle for a passenger.
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The person riding in the pillion.
synonyms
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The cushion of a saddle.
verb
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To ride on a pillion.
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To put a pillion on a horse.
adverb
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Riding behind the driving rider, as when positioned on the rump of a mount.
Examples of pillion in a Sentence
If you carry a pillion, a second headset will enable you to converse normally.
Policies can also include multi bikes, pillion cover, gray imports and motorcycle breakdown.
There is no minimum age limit for pillion passengers but the passenger MUST be able to place both feet on the pillion footrests.
Someone had chopped off the pillion footrest hangers and replaced them with a couple of welded on lengths of one-inch gas pipe.
In 1994, 445 bikers and pillion passengers were killed, compared with 1,749 car drivers and their passengers.
However - nothing compared to riding pillion with Dad.
Communication If you intend to take a pillion regularly, it is worth buying a rider to pillion intercom.
A separate passenger pillion can be removed in seconds to give the bike a solo profile.
A colour-matched molded plastic pillion pad cowl that snaps into place to accentuate the CBR600RR's purposefully competitive look.
Prior to the introduction of carriages horseback was the means of locomotion, and Queen Elizabeth rode in state to St Paul's on a pillion; but even after carriages were used, horseback was held to be more dignified, for James I.