[
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
- You get a bit uncomfortable after riding pillion for a couple of hours.
- Motorcyclists and pillion passengers must wear helmets at all times and motorists must wear safety belts.
- The 18-year-old plaintiff was severely injured when the motorcycle on which he was a pillion passenger collided with another vehicle.
- Many improvements and luxuries were introduced in the course of these five-and-forty years in the general manner of living; but cock-fighting, bull-baiting, and bear-baiting, were still the national amusements; and a coach was so rarely seen, and was such an ugly and cumbersome affair when it was seen, that even the Queen herself, on many high occasions, rode on horseback on a pillion behind the Lord Chancellor. A Child's History of England
- As a learner rider you must not carry a pillion passenger.
- The plaintiff was a pillion passenger on a motor bike driven by the defendant.
- I eat very little and I can ride pillion behind one of your men if you can't spare me a palfrey. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
- North Yorkshire Police chiefs have been spurred by the tragic total of 28 motorcyclists and pillion passengers killed in accidents across the county last year, the highest number of deaths ever recorded.
- A man and his woman pillion passenger died instantly when they lost control of the machine and hit a wall.
- The accident last night was one of four serious collisions in North Yorkshire over the Bank Holiday weekend, which left three motorcyclists dead and a pillion passenger seriously injured.