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1917 Harper's Mag. June 70/2 The Bostonian..has reduced ‘a pedestrian who crosses streets in disregard of traffic signals’ to the compact jaywalker.

1925 Spectator 12 Dec. 1080/1 Needless to say, there are few ‘jay-walkers’ in Miami now.

1927 Weekly Disp. 1 May 8 The police are taking the Jay Walker in hand and teaching him how to cross the streets.

1930 Bulletin 23 Jan. 5 He thinks that every kerb should be built about a foot above the pavement, so that ‘jay-walkers’ can be kept away from the outside edge.

1937 Times 25 Jan. 8/2 In many streets like Oxford Street, for instance, the jaywalker wanders complacently in the very middle of the roadway as if it was a country lane.

1972 Police Rev. 24 Nov. 1528/3 Realising his mistake, [he] pulls back quickly, narrowly missing the jay-walker.

1957 C. Brooke-Rose Lang. of Love 15 She jay-walked through the traffic-jam of St. Giles, vaguely hoping to be run over.

1973 Scotsman 7 Aug. 8/3 Although there are penalties for jay-walking they do not seem to be much needed. Indeed a friend of mine from another part of Canada once jay-walked in the city I refer to and said that she would never do so again because she had been so embarrassed when all the traffic stopped for her.

1919 S. Lewis Free Air 257 He had..been cursed by a policeman for jaywalking.

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Nov. 23/4 His car brushed plaintiff, who was jay-walking.

1970 P. Laurie Scotl. Yard v. 123 A quarter of all London's accidents involve pedestrians—we have no effective jay-walking law.