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bicycle pump

noun as in air pump

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But when air sinks it is heated due to compression, like how a bicycle pump gets hot because the air is being squeezed into a smaller space.

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He applies a bicycle pump to the wheels and is off, weaving through traffic of motorcycles and trucks.

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He moved his arms up and down and up and down until he looked like a berserk bicycle pump.

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The 25-year-old whose husband used a bicycle pump to push air into her uterus, with fatal consequences.

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And British industry did answer the call, even as the experts cautioned that these are sophisticated medical devices, not bicycle pumps.

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