Holmes is an English-language surname with several origins.
Click here to see some of our 'fixies'. What's a fixie?. âFixie is short for âfixed gear,â which is a slang term for bicycles that have drivetrains with one gear that's fixed to the rear wheel so that you cannot coast and must continue pedaling whenever the bike's moving.
Scrapie is one of a group of diseases classified as spongiform encephalopathies, so named because the resultant deterioration of neurons causes a spongelike pattern to develop in the brain tissue.