autoped

Originally a brand name, equivalent to auto- +‎ -ped.

autoped (plural autopeds)

1. (historical) A motorized kick scooter, used from the early 1910s through the early 1920s.
   • 1916, Illustrated World - Volume 26, page 353:

     There is no room for two on the autoped, that newest vehicle compromise between riding and walking.

   • 1917, N.A.R.D. Journal - Volume 24, page 894:

     A Baltimore drug firm, that innocently sent a delivery boy “scooting” on an autoped through Druid Hill Park on an errand, was surprised later […]

   • 1917, Bench and Bar - Volume 11, page 374:

     If a motor-cycle, why not bicycles, roller skates, autopeds, "scooters," stilts, and all other means of locomotion dear to the childish heart?

   • 1965, Horizon:

     Peter Hitchman is the proud owner of another unusual motor-cycle — a French autoped dating from pre-1914 days.

The autoped differs from the modern electric scooter in that it had an internal combustion engine rather than an electric motor.

Borrowed from French autopède.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.toːˌpɛt/

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• Hyphenation: au‧to‧ped

autoped m (plural autopeds, diminutive autopedje n)

1. motorised kick scooter, autoped
2. (Netherlands) kick scooter

   Synonym: step

• → Indonesian: otopet (“kick scooter”)