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单词 garage jockey
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garage jockey
b. transferred. A driver of a motor vehicle. Frequently preceded by a noun used attributively. So garage jockey, a garage attendant. Chiefly North American.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of motor vehicle
automobilist1896
motorist1896
autoist1899
chauffeur1899
motor-carist1899
motor driver1902
jockey1912
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1912 Collier's 28 Sept. 11/2 Some are, so to speak, ‘gentlemen jockeys’, and own, enter, and drive their own cars for the fun of the thing.
1929 D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan Nov. 72/2 Jerking me into the cab and telling the jockey to go to the Penn Station.
1936 Daily Herald 5 Aug. 8/4 Here is a short list of busmen's slang phrases:..Jockey (Driver).
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §723/2 Automobile racer, auto or buzzer jockey,..speed jockey,..suicide jockey.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §723/4 Motorcycle racer, broadsider, jockey,..motor jockey.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §765/2 Commercial driver (bus, taxicab, truck),..jockey, motor jockey.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §765/5 Truck driver, truck jockey or spinner... Spec. juice jockey, a gasoline-truck driver; grunt-and-squeal jockey, a stock hauler;..suicide jockey, a nitro-glycerine hauler.
1945 Amer. Speech 20 148/1 Jeep jockey, truck driver.
1954 Chicago Tribune 20 July a. 17/1 Trolley jockey gets even with slowpokes.
1968 Drive Spring 113 The driver of any heavy-load vehicle is known as the pilot or jockey.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 37/3 (advt.) Executive 2 bedroom, 2 baths professionally decorated, overlooking rose garden, pool treed ravine. Doorman and car jockey.
1972 National Geographic Aug. 209/1 Sweat-streaked truck jockey.
1973 J. Cleary Ransom i. 33 There had been no trouble with the garage jockey. He had been lounging in a chair in the tiny office.
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