Citations:taxicab

English citations of taxicab

Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups:

• taxi: net.misc - May 4 1982, 10:49 pm by eagle

  It is related (at least in my mind) to the phrases "hack writer" and "hack (taxi) driver".

• cab: net.jokes - Jun 5 1982, 2:09 am by azure

  A drunk college student staggers out of Shakey's Pizza and hails a cab.

• taxis: net.travel - Nov 25 1982, 2:16 am by uiucdcs

  Taxis are quite inexpensive.

• taxicabs: net.college - Mar 31 1983, 12:45 pm by ucbesvax

  Noam Chomsky notes that a good many people who could be doing valuable research are driving taxicabs.

• taxicab: net.nlang - Mar 31 1983, 1:40 pm by utcsrgv

  I seem to recall that both "taxi" and "cab" are, at least in English, abbreviations of the word "taxicab" (this makes sense so far...).

• cabs: net.flame - Sep 12 1983, 5:05 am by 3363

  I looked up the definition and the closest thing I can figure out is that a lot of people posting news also drive cabs as a side job.

• taxi-cab: net.flame - Oct 7 1983, 1:53 pm by e

  The ideal car for NYC: a used taxi-cab with all the fittings still intact.

• taxi cab: net.math - May 3 1984, 3:19 pm by h

  1729 is interesting Because G. H. Hardy rode in taxi cab No. 1729 on his way to see Srinivasa Ramanujan at Putney.

• taxi cabs: net.religion.jewish - Feb 8 1985, 8:00 am by cs193

  Many Israelis who choose not to follow the Halacha are eating garinim (i.e., sunflower seeds) and occupying taxi cabs in the Bronx.

• Taxi-cabs: eunet.jokes - Jul 5 1989, 10:17 am by Dave Thorpe

  When he reached the sign he saw many small stickers plastered all over it - "WANT A GOOD TIME - 0393322505", "SLIPERY SAUCY SUZY - yours reasonable rates, ask at reception", "Fred's Taxi-cabs - Handy when you're pissed", "Pedro's Taxi-cabs - It's 1p cheaper than Fred's", etc..

• taxi-cabs: alt.folklore.computers - Feb 7 1990, 1:19 pm by Brad Sherman

  I seem to remember reading that the analogue of taxi-cabs in ancient Rome used a geared mechanism which dropped a stone into a hopper for every N revolutions of the wheels of the vehicle (chariot?).