dispatch rider

1. 1.

   a messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle)

   Broadermessenger

Questions about dispatch rider

What does dispatch rider mean?

dispatch rider means "a messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle)".

Is dispatch rider a common word?

dispatch rider is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.