| 释义 |
scooterist
[f. scooter + -ist.]
One who drives, or travels on, a scooter (sense 4 or 5).
1919Model Engineer & Electrician 27 Feb. 142/1 The ‘scooterist’ is Mr. Franklin Gunther, First Secretary U.S. Diplomatic Service. 1956New Yorker 8 Dec. 44/3 One of the owners..was a young man wearing a white crash helmet and lying supine on the pavement under his blue Vespa... As each new scooterist arrived, he would extend an arm upward to shake hands. 1959Times 16 May 7/6 Does a scooterist pay his sixpence or a shilling and take up the space that will hold a mammoth Cadillac? 1976R. Hill Another Death in Venice i. ii. 31 A flotilla of motor-scooters went by... There was something so utterly careless about the scooterists that he felt a pang of envy. 1981Times 27 July 26/2 They withstood extreme provocation by large numbers of these scooterists. |