Originally Posted by
u235
To add what others have already said. If you want to make sense of it without getting Freud involved....
The bike culture assumes there is always some type of foot retention device. There are clips which are toe clips or straps and later came a cleat style that did not use clips or straps. There is no third option of neither
Maybe the third option is simply just implied as clipless AND cleatless.
Every "culture" has its jargon.