What is Silver Machine?
1.
Something on which one would take a ride which leaves you still feeling mean.
As sung about in the UK no.3 hit single by Hawkwind in 1972 with the now infamous Lemmy, later of Motörhead, on bass guitar and vocals. The song is thought to be based on a time-travelling bicycle or something.
"I just took a ride in a silver machine,
And I'm still feeling mean"
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