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▪ I. taxi, n.|ˈtæksɪ|
Also taxy. Pl. taxis, † taxies.
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1. a. Colloquial abbreviation, orig. of taximeter, and hence, more usu., of taxi-cab.
1907Daily Chron. 26 Mar. 6/7 Every journalist..has his idea of what the vehicle should be called. It has been described as the (1) taxi, (2) motor-cab, (3) taxi-cab, (4) taximo,..(7) taximeter-cab. 1908Ibid. 4 Feb. 4/7 Within the past few months the ‘taxi’ has been the name given to the motor-cab. 1908Daily News 30 Apr. 2 Many ladies..now take a ‘taxy’ regularly for the morning's shopping. There are about 350 horsed ‘taxies’ on the road. 1908E. V. Lucas Over Bemertons iv, He went away in a taxi. 1911G. B. Shaw Getting Married 285 Me and the beadle have been all over the place in a couple of taxies, maam. 1914― Pygmalion (1916) iii. 128 In future you shall have as many taxis as you want. 1923A. Bennett Riceyman Steps iv. v. 198 Even in the daytime taxies were few in King's Cross Road. 1925F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby iii. 70 Forms leaned together in the taxis as they waited, and voices sang. 1979United States 1980/81 (Penguin Travel Guides) 150 Taxis cannot be hailed in the streets.
b. colloq. A (small) passenger aeroplane; also short for taxiplane (see sense 4 below).
1911Flight 11 Nov. 986/1 Baldwin, Sabelli and Lieut. Esnie Chinnery were making straight flights on the taxi. 1918Atlantic Monthly Aug. 260 Our hero is..helping his mechanic give the ‘taxi’ a final looking over. 1919N.Y. Times Mag. 30 Mar. 4 An airplane was..usually [called] a boat, ship, bus, or taxi. 1922Daily Mail Year Bk. 1923 74/2 The 100 miles-an-hour ‘aerial taxi’. Ibid., He kept his winged ‘taxi’ waiting while he transacted urgent business, and then flew on. 1923Daily Mail 7 Aug. 8/2 Companies..which send ‘taxis’, or aerial tramps, to anywhere between Plymouth and Stockholm. 1943C. H. Ward-Jackson It's Piece of Cake 60 Taxi, an aircraft for the conveyance of a small number of passengers.
2. [f. the vb.] An act or spell of taxiing.
1931Daily Mirror 27 Aug. 2/2 The machine..was lost in clouds of spray as it ploughed its way in a graceful ‘taxi’. 1965‘J. le Carré’ Looking-Glass War i. 9 The plane..began the long taxi to the reception point.
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3. U.S. slang. A prison sentence of between five and fifteen years.
1930J. Lait Big House i. 1 Five to fifteen years, the judge had decreed—a ‘stretch’ that the convicts call a ‘taxi’, because most New York cabs bear conspicuously their rates, and are known as ‘fifteen-and-fives’. 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 119/2 Taxi, 5, 10 or 15 years prison sentence. 1962‘D. Shannon’ Extra Kill viii. 127 Whalen had done a five-to-fifteen year stretch—that's a taxi.
III. 4. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 1) taxi fare, taxi fleet, taxi-horn, taxi man, taxi queue, taxi rank [rank n.1 1 c], taxi stand, taxi station; taxi-driving vbl. n. and ppl. adj.; (sense 2) taxi apron, taxi clearance, taxi work; taxi-boat, a boat that may be hired like a taxi; taxi-dance orig. and chiefly U.S., a dance at which taxi-dancers are available; so taxi-dance hall; taxi-dancer orig. U.S., a woman (or man) whose services as a dance-partner may be hired; a professional dance-partner; so taxi-dance v. intr., -dancing vbl. n.; taxi-driver, the driver of a taxi-cab; also transf., esp. (colloq.) an aeroplane pilot; taxi-girl, a young female taxi-dancer; taxiplane, a piloted light aeroplane available for public hire; taxi-ride, a journey in a taxi; a short distance by car; also transf.; taxi service, a service providing transport in taxi-cabs (in quot. 1952, a shuttle service of aircraft); taxi squad N. Amer. Football, a group of players who take part in practices and can serve as reserves for the team; hence taxi squadder, a member of such a group; taxi strip, track = taxiway below; taxi-truck Austral., a van, with a driver, for public hire; taxiway [after runway 2 b], a route along which aircraft can taxi on the way to or from a runway.
1978T. L. Smith Money War i. 136 Captain Imman eased the 727 forward on the taxi apron.
1949Newsweek 26 Sept. 44/2 A taxiboat pilot told how, ‘as soon as I pulled alongside, the passengers began plummeting down’. 1953R. Godden Kingfishers catch Fire x. 117 Subhan's shikara had not cushions and curtains like a real taxi-boat. 1974Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 8 Sept. 6/4 There was a 24-hour taxiboat service supplied.
1966D. Francis Flying Finish ii. 25, I filed my flight plan, checked with the control tower for taxy clearance.
1932P. G. Cressy (title) The taxi-dance hall. 1938W. Smitter F.O.B. Detroit 9 On it there was the name of a taxi-dance place over a store on Woodward Avenue. 1955N. Marsh Scales of Justice ix. 205 [He] cohabited with a so-called Miss Kitty de Vere whom he..met at a taxi-dance. 1972J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) i. 26 She was thirty-eight years old now..and taxi dancing part-time down the street at the ballroom. 1976New Yorker 1 Mar. 80/2 He also played in a taxi-dance-hall band.
1930Variety 12 Feb. 49/4 The Filipino is a much better spender than his white brother and a favorite with the gal taxi-dancers. 1979P. Driscoll Pangolin iii. 36 He would simply pay Mama-san Julie..to take one of her taxi dancers home for the night. 1982Times 8 Feb. 22/7 The ancient (well, 61-year-old) custom of taxi-dancing has returned in style to New York.
1907Daily Chron. 27 Aug. 4/7 ‘Take me to the New Theatre’, said the fare. ‘Which one, sir?’ respectfully asked the ‘taxy’ driver. 1924J. Buchan Three Hostages vi. 84 It is an outlandish place to get to, but most taxi-drivers know it. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 868/1 Taxi-driver, an aeroplane pilot. 1955W. Faulkner Fable 110 Somebody owes something for that poor bloodstained taxi-driver [sc. an aeroplane pilot]. 1971Daily Tel. 30 Jan. 3/3 For the first time separate experiments are being performed by the ‘taxi driver’, the lonely astronaut in the orbiting Command Module. 1975J. Meldrum Semonov Impulse x. 173 She leaned forward and gave the taxi driver Dörflinger's address.
1909Westm. Gaz. 20 Sept. 5/4 To qualify for the taxi-driving ‘profession’. 1951Koestler Age of Longing ii. iii. 234 But there were no grand dukes, taxi-driving generals, or princesses at the Kronstadt.
1932H. Crane Let. Feb. (1965) 401 I'm sure you wouldn't mind advancing the bus and taxi fare, would you? 1965F. Sargeson Memoirs of Peon viii. 264 The taxi fleet was being doubled.
1963J. Kirkup Tropic Temper xv. 163 The professional dance-girls, or taxi-girls as they are sometimes called in Singapore and Hong Kong, sit in a long row in front of the band. 1974E. Brawley Rap (1975) i. xii. 166 Freddy paid a few piastres and danced with the taxi girls on the bandstand.
1943G. Greene Ministry of Fear i. iv. 54 Far away a taxi-horn cried through an empty world.
1909Daily News 3 Mar. 6 You can safely leave the rest to the taximen. 1946E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh ii. 111 Sneaking? Why, me and the taxi man made enough noise..to wake the dead. 1982P. Fitzgerald At Freddie's vii. 54 They could all see him..cutting short whatever the taxi-man was saying.
1920Daily Tel. 13 Apr. 1/7 Taxiplanes for any journey. Per mile, 2s. 6d. 1926Bulletin 6 Aug. 3/1 He made a dash to Constantinople with a taxiplane. 1982G. Hammond Game v. 60, I whistled up the taxi-plane.
1969G. Lyall Venus with Pistol xv. 98 Everybody else in the coach..charged out to get into the taxi queue.
1929T. S. Moore in Yeats & Moore: Corr. (1953) 155 There is a taxi-rank a few steps above the station. 1943G. Greene Ministry of Fear iv. i. 222 A taxi-rank with one cab left.
1917Kipling Diversity of Creatures 333 It demanded Work in the shape of many taxi-rides daily. 1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? iii. 44 It was a five-dollar taxi ride from the Villa España. 1976E. Ward Hanged Man x. 59 He was no good for the tricky stuff. Just taxi-rides. Light planes over flat country.
1952Times 23 Aug. 4/6 British European Airways..are to make eight flights daily, mainly to Hanover, in addition to a new public ‘taxi’ service..to west Germany. 1962L. Davidson Rose of Tibet 316 The p.c. questioned the local taxi service. 1981L. Deighton XPD xxvi. 214 London... The parking problem was horrendous, the taxi service inadequate.
1966Rote & Winter Lang. Pro Football iii. 141 Taxi squad, group of players under contract who practice with team but are not included on official team roster and do not take part in league games. 1967N.Y. Times 8 Dec. 64 The Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League..activated a cornerback..from the taxi squad. 1976Globe & Mail (Toronto) 19 July s9/2 This is the first season the CFL has allowed teams an official taxi squad.
1975B. Meggs Matter of Paradise v. iv. 154 These boys are first string, and a taxi squader like yourself..can get hurt.
1922M. A. von Arnim Enchanted April ix. 135 A taxi stand was at the end of the road. 1982T. Allbeury Shadow of Shadows xxii. 190 He had to walk almost to the bridge before he found a taxi stand.
1930J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel v. 366 Instead she went out to the taxistation. 1943Yank 12 Nov. 6/3 We rode up the taxi strips to our head stand where the crew stood around the ship. 1976B. Jackson Flameout (1977) xii. 209 The small jet began to lose height, and soon airport buildings, a runway, and taxi strips were in sight.
1945Tee Emm (Air Ministry) V. 42 The unit did not use lighted tar barrels to mark taxi tracks. 1966D. Francis Flying Finish x. 127 Patrick moved down the taxy track and turned on to the apron.
1962Southerly XXIII. 98 Taxi-truck. 1974P. Cave Dirtiest Picture Postcard ii. 13 He packed all his books and records into two large cardboard boxes and phoned a taxi-truck.
1933C. K. Stewart Speech Amer. Airman (thesis, Univ. of Akron) 96 Taxi-way, a route along the field designated for planes to taxi upon. 1939Sun (Baltimore) 17 Apr. 8/1 The remaining $70,000 would be used for roadways, aprons, taxiways and fences. 1982I. Johnston Special Drug Squad ii. 25 The taxiway..allows aircraft to be towed across the perimeter road to British Airways' maintenance hangars.
1945Ann. Reg. 1944 23 A small land plane of 8,000 lb. to seat eight passengers and suitable for taxi work.
▪ II. taxi, v.|ˈtæksɪ|
Also taxy (now only in pres. pple.).
[f. the n.]
1. a. intr. Of an aeroplane, etc., or its pilot: to travel slowly along the ground or water under the machine's own power. Also transf. to taxi in, to taxi from a runway to a terminal or hangar; similarly to taxi out.
1911[see remous]. 1914Aeroplane 5 Feb. 140/1 He taxied out to leeward,..turned,..opened out his engine. Ibid. 1 July 21/2 The de Bolotoff triplane was ‘taxying’, but showed no signs of lifting. 1915[see come v. 24 d]. 1918H. Barber Aerobatics i. 37 In a high wind don't taxy unless necessary. 1927C. A. Lindbergh We ii. 19, I..taxied back to the hangar. 1932S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xxiii. 304 The aeroplane..was taxi-ing comfortably to a standstill. 1955Times 24 Aug. 6/4 Crowds waited at London Airport, and the Canberra was greeted with cheers as it taxied in. 1959D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles VIII. 280 When well out from the land both birds became silent and ‘taxied’ heavily over the water until air-borne. 1961J. Heller Catch 22 (1962) v. 47 The planes lumbered around and nosed forward lamely..until they taxied into the line at the foot of the landing strip and took off swiftly. 1975Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 4 Apr. 16/2 The ton of fuel..would be burnt while taxiing out to the runway.
b. trans. To cause (an aeroplane, etc.) to taxi.
1915H. Rosher In R.N.A.S. (1916) 67, I was taxying my machine to the far end of the aerodrome, to start off into the wind. 1933Discovery Mar. 79 A Moth fuselage is used to ‘taxy’ a 25 ft. model of a flying boat hull by means of a force-recording undercarriage. 1946Proc. IRE XXXIV. 380/2 (caption) General Motors Bug being taxied by radio control from B-23 airplane at Muroc Lake, California. 1977R.A.F. Yearbk. 29 Taxying the aircraft requires a little practice.
2. a. intr. To travel in a taxi.
1918A. Quiller-Couch Foe-Farrell xxiv. 397 From Victoria that evening I taxi'd straight to Jermyn Street. 1942E. Paul Narrow St. iv. 33 Anne's father..used to taxi to the rue de la Huchette from the avenue de la Bourdonnais. 1971L. Blackwell Blackwell Remembers xxii. 200 As we taxied down the Mall it was gaily set out with Union Jacks and the Finnish flag.
b. trans. To convey in a taxi. Also transf.
1973J. Thomson Death Cap ix. 134 I'll get where I want to on my own feet... I don't want no bloody police taxiing me around. 1977G. McDonald Confess, Fletch xxxviii. 178 He taxies Ms. Fryer to her motel. Allows her time to change.
Hence ˈtaxiing vbl. n. and ppl. a., in sense 1 a above; also fig.
1916N. J. Gill Flyer's Guide iii. 32 If, however, the machine is subject to a sudden loss of forward way (i.e., taxying over rough ground) the planes then tend to go on. 1946R. A. McFarland Human Factors in Air Transport Design ix. 390 To permit good ground vision during taxiing. 1958Castle & ‘Hailey’ Flight into Danger vi. 76 One slowly taxi-ing aircraft came to a stop and cut its engines. 1968J. Ziman Public Knowledge i. 10 Greek Science never finally took off from its brilliant taxying runs. 1972Guardian 22 Dec. 4/1 An airliner ran into a taxi-ing plane while taking off. 1982L. Cook Under Etna i. i. 11 The first jarring bounce of touchdown and..the gentle taxi-ing in. |