subwayn.

Brit.

/ˈsʌbweɪ/, U.S.

/ˈsəbˌweɪ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Perhaps also partly formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: sub- prefix, way n.¹; sub-railway n.

Etymology: < sub- prefix + way n.¹ In sense 2 perhaps shortened < sub-railway n. (compare sense 2 at that entry).

a. Chiefly British. An underground tunnel providing access to sewers and other subterranean public utilities, or used to convey water and gas pipes, telegraph wires, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > underground passage or tunnel

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burrow1615

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underpass1904

1822 Morning Chron. 5 Nov. Access would be given to the workmen..into the subways, for the formation and repair of sewers and drains.

1823 Morning Chron. 21 Aug. The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's should contrive a sub-way to Ram-alley.

1845 J. Williams Sub-railways London 4 The construction of clean, dry, Sub-Ways..to receive the Water and Gas Pipes, and to get to the sewers.

1899 Proc. City Council Minneapolis 8 Sept. 519/2 Said pipes to be laid in a subway of brick.

1943 Triumphs of Engin. 187/2 One subway, to carry two 66-inch and one 42-inch trunk water mains, accounted for an expenditure of £11,728.

2006 A. Duncan Secret London (new ed.) ii. 51 There are nearly 12 miles..of service subways in London.

b. A tunnel (esp. a walkway) beneath a road, river, railway, etc., permitting easy movement from one side to the other.The usual term in North America is tunnel.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > underground passage or tunnel

crypt1583

burrow1615

gallery1630

syrinx1678

rock hole1738

cellarwaya1762

tunnel1765

heading1811

subpassage1822

subway1822

subway1831

underpass1904

1831 S. Lewis Topogr. Dict. Eng. III. 144/2 The idea of forming a subway under the bed of the Thames, to connect Rotherhithe with the opposite shore at Old Gravel lane, Wapping, was revived by Mr. Brunel.

1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 454 Thames Subway. Incorporated..for making and maintaining a subway, under the river Thames, from Deptford to the Isle of Dogs. Length, 582 yards, with various roads and approaches.

1884 Law Times Rep. New Ser. 51 540/1 There was no bridge or subway for passengers to cross the line by.

1963 Times 24 May 16/6 A future subway linking the triangle with the Radcliffe Infirmary and passing under the Banbury and the Woodstock roads.

1988 Frontline (S. Afr.) Apr. 24 There are two subways under the tracks, some 300m apart.

2004 Metro 1 Nov. (London ed.) 44/4 Replacement of bridges and subways with surface crossings.

2. An underground railway. Cf. earlier sub-railway n. 2.The usual term for the underground railways in North America, and for that in Glasgow. Often applied to other similar railways in non-English speaking countries (see quot. 1960), although metro n.² is also a common designation. Cf. tube n. 7b, underground n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > with specific situation or route > underground

sub-railway1835

underground railway1845

subway1864

underground1866

tube1900

tube railway1900

metro1904

Met1909

the Tube1924

U-bahn1938

clockwork orange1978

1851 Daily News (London) 10 Nov. 3/6 Mr. Charles Pearson's comprehensive plan for improving the metropolis..by constructing a trunk railroad, in a well-lighted and ventilated subway, under the surface of the street.]

1864 Daily News 9 Feb. 6/6 No less than 23 [railway] projects..will have to be discussed. They may be described as follows:—..the Tower Subway [etc.].

1890 Glasgow District Subway Act (53 & 54 Vict. c. 162) §7 The subway shall consist of tunnels or covered ways, and shall have two lines of rails.

1904 Daily Chron. 29 Oct. 3/7 The subway is being extended to Brooklyn by tunnel under the East River.

1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? i. 22 They were walking down the steps to the subway arm in arm.

1960 Times 31 May 11/6 Three new subways are being dug under the Ring [in Vienna] to relieve the growing traffic congestion.

1979 W. S. Graham in Nightfisherman (1999) 354 Thanks for the Glasgow Subway. I remember it well with its wheels and the smell of tarry rope.

2010 New Yorker 17 May 20/2 Some of the works were made listening to music while blindfolded, others while riding the subway wearing noise-cancelling headphones.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

ΚΠ

1822 Morning Chron. 5 Nov. The City of London Patent Subway Company.

1879 Engineering 26 Dec. 496/3 A company for the purpose of making..a subway tunnel and roadway partly under the River Mersey.

1888 Advance (Chicago) 26 Apr. 260 A subway commission that for two years have drawn good salaries for not putting their wires under ground.

1893 Mass. Acts & Resolves 1420 The board of subway commissioners.

1943 Life 19 Apr. 32/1 Mayor Kelly poses with subway workers in specially flag-draped stand.

1960 F. W. Boardman Tunnels vii. 94 In the Moscow subway system the Russians can boast of the most elaborate and impressive underground line in the world.

1985 Abingdon Herald 21 Feb. 1/2 The splendid subway mural beneath Stratton Way.

2005 K. Ascher The Works: Anat. of City i. ii. 43 A never-ending battle to keep the subway tracks clean.

b. (In sense 2.)

subway car n.

ΚΠ

1887 Glasgow Herald 16 June 4/1 The subway cars would be much more comfortable than a tramway, because the tramways were more crowded.

1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer ii. viii. 256 Faces, hats, hands, newspapers jiggled in the fetid roaring subway car like corn in a popper.

2004 New Yorker 15 Nov. 106/1 The subway cars are brightly lit inside and graffiti-free inside and out.

subway fare n.

ΚΠ

1899 Glasgow Herald 10 Jan. 9/4 A report of a Parliamentary inquiry with reference to the Subway fares.

1957 G. M. Tucker Common-sense Econ. xix. 174 In the case of bus and subway fares, increase often does not bring added revenue because business falls off.

2003 New Yorker 29 May 34/3 Bram observed that in New York the subway fare almost always mirrors the cost of a slice [of pizza].

subway line n.

ΚΠ

1868 Daily News 17 Sept. He suggested as a relief to the street traffic of the metropolis, the adoption of..subway lines of rail.

1905 Daily Chron. 8 Mar. 5/4 The collision on the subway line occurred on the north-bound track at Twenty-third Street.

2006 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 Mar. (Central ed.) a13/1 Projects, including..the extension of the No. 7 subway line.

subway map n.

ΚΠ

1900 Rep. Librarian State Libr. 1899 282 Subway map of Boston proper.

1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) v. 106 They stood there staring at the subway map.

2000 J. Williams Cardiff Dead (2001) ix. 120 I get the subway map and spend..hours taking the Z train all the way through Brooklyn.

subway platform n.

ΚΠ

1897 Publ. Doc. Mass. 1896 V. 108 The company may..maintain on the subway platforms booths of suitable size for the sale of newspapers and periodicals.

1942 H. Flannery Assignm. to Berlin x. 195 [The shelter] was filled with all the..people who had been on the subway platform.

2009 Time Out N.Y. 23 Apr. 42/2 We occasionally roam the subway platforms, hoping to catch..Poster Boy at work.

subway ride n.

ΚΠ

1897 Boston Daily Advertiser 29 May 6/3 (heading) A subway ride.

1915 A. Morgan Imprisoned Splendor 220 The swift subway ride, amid a suffocating jam of people.

2009 Sunday Independent (S.Afr.) (Nexis) 18 Jan. (Life section) 29 A 10-minute subway ride took me to the Vatican and St Peter's Basilica.

subway rider n.

ΚΠ

1905 N.Y. Times 26 Dec. 6/3 If..easterly and westerly transfers are granted to the elevated and subway riders.

1950 H. S. Commager Amer. Mind iii. 79 He represented..upper middle-class opinion—the opinion..of the commuter rather than the subway rider.

2011 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 22 Dec. 12 Subway riders can now sign up for e-mail alerts..when an elevator or escalator breaks down..in a subway station.

subway riding n. and adj.

ΚΠ

1909 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos Tribune 27 Mar. 7/2 (heading) Step to be taken to make subway riding comfortable for fair sex.

1918 Amer. Jrnl. Public Health 8 346/1 They [sc. magazines]..reach a thoughtful, leisurely audience rather than a hasty and subway-riding one.

1996 G. S. Golany & T. Ojima Geo-space Urban Design iv. 232 This seating shortage during rush hour has created the notorious scenes of subway riding in Tokyo.

2009 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 24 Sept. (Now section) 32 Every subway-riding New York girl needs a good tote for carrying..things that don't fit into purses.

subway station n.

ΚΠ

1887 Glasgow Herald 24 June The Maryhill route was nearer to Buchanan Street than the subway station.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 48/3 (advt.) An apartment..minutes from the Davisville subway station.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Nov. b8/5 Around the corner from a subway station.

subway stop n.

ΚΠ

1910 B. J. Arnold Rep. Pittsburgh Transportation Probl. Index 197 No subway stops in short haul territory.

2003 Globe & Mail (Toronto) May 31 t 3/2 The Greenpoint Tavern, an awesome dive just steps from the Bedford subway stop.

subway ticket n.

ΚΠ

1897 Boston Daily Globe 2 Sept. 6/2 What objection can the West End have to selling packages of 25 subway tickets good for use at any time?

1977 Economist 1 Oct. 91/1 Several thousands of makework jobs on public payrolls [in Japan] (like having one man punch your subway ticket and another collect it).

2009 S. Y. Fisher & S. Shelley Compl. Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance in your 20s & 30s (ed. 4) vi. 55 Check out commuter passes, which enable you to buy quantities of bus, train, or subway tickets at reduced prices.

subway train n.

ΚΠ

1883 North-Eastern Daily Gaz. 10 Jan. 4 A locomotive which works the subway train from the Steel Works to the slag tip at South Bank.

1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 27 Jan. 2/5 An aged woman was killed by a subway train today while trying to go into a car in which the door had been closed.

2003 Dreamwatch Aug. 68/1 At one point, Daredevil gleefully watches a rapist get chopped in two by a subway train.

C2.

subway alumnus n. U.S. slang (now chiefly historical) a supporter of a college football team who did not attend the college (usually in plural, also in extended use).Originally in reference to fans of Notre Dame, Indiana, who lived in New York City, where the team often played. [So called because they could travel to games by subway; compare Subway Series n.]

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > supporter

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subway alumnus1933

1933 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 22 Jan. 8/8 New York City's ‘subway alumni’ those thousands of men and women who never set foot on a college campus but who..take their football as seriously as any ‘rah rah’ boy.

1942 Lowell (Mass.) Sun & Citizen-Leader 30 Dec. 13/7 Milt Morris, a ‘subway alumnus’ of the University of California at Los Angeles by way of Alhambra, Calif.

1962 Washington Post 5 May c1/1 The ‘subway alumni’ or the $2 bettors loved the come-from-behind colt [sc. Silky Sullivan].

2010 Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 21 Nov. 14 Notre Dame returned to the Bronx for the first time in 41 years and sent the subway alumni home happy.

Subway Series n. (also with lower-case initials) U.S. colloquial a series of Major League Baseball games played between two teams from New York. [So called because the fans of both teams could travel to games by subway.]

ΚΠ

1928 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos-Tribune 25 Sept. 8/1 It looks like New York in the American League. The other half of the proposed subway series may..be closer to its goal line by tonight.

1971 H. Seymour Baseball xxii. 438 The Yankees..went on to beat the Giants in the third successive ‘subway series’ between the two New York teams.

2000 N.Y. Times 18 Oct. d1/3 The Yankees will play the Mets in the city's first Subway Series since 1956.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	subway
释义	subwayn. Brit. /ˈsʌbweɪ/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌweɪ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Perhaps also partly formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: sub- prefix, way n.¹; sub-railway n. Etymology: < sub- prefix + way n.¹ In sense 2 perhaps shortened < sub-railway n. (compare sense 2 at that entry). 1. a. Chiefly British. An underground tunnel providing access to sewers and other subterranean public utilities, or used to convey water and gas pipes, telegraph wires, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > underground passage or tunnel crypt1583 burrow1615 gallery1630 syrinx1678 rock hole1738 cellarwaya1762 tunnel1765 heading1811 subpassage1822 subway1822 subway1831 underpass1904 1822 Morning Chron. 5 Nov. Access would be given to the workmen..into the subways, for the formation and repair of sewers and drains. 1823 Morning Chron. 21 Aug. The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's should contrive a sub-way to Ram-alley. 1845 J. Williams Sub-railways London 4 The construction of clean, dry, Sub-Ways..to receive the Water and Gas Pipes, and to get to the sewers. 1899 Proc. City Council Minneapolis 8 Sept. 519/2 Said pipes to be laid in a subway of brick. 1943 Triumphs of Engin. 187/2 One subway, to carry two 66-inch and one 42-inch trunk water mains, accounted for an expenditure of £11,728. 2006 A. Duncan Secret London (new ed.) ii. 51 There are nearly 12 miles..of service subways in London. b. A tunnel (esp. a walkway) beneath a road, river, railway, etc., permitting easy movement from one side to the other.The usual term in North America is tunnel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > underground passage or tunnel crypt1583 burrow1615 gallery1630 syrinx1678 rock hole1738 cellarwaya1762 tunnel1765 heading1811 subpassage1822 subway1822 subway1831 underpass1904 1831 S. Lewis Topogr. Dict. Eng. III. 144/2 The idea of forming a subway under the bed of the Thames, to connect Rotherhithe with the opposite shore at Old Gravel lane, Wapping, was revived by Mr. Brunel. 1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 454 Thames Subway. Incorporated..for making and maintaining a subway, under the river Thames, from Deptford to the Isle of Dogs. Length, 582 yards, with various roads and approaches. 1884 Law Times Rep. New Ser. 51 540/1 There was no bridge or subway for passengers to cross the line by. 1963 Times 24 May 16/6 A future subway linking the triangle with the Radcliffe Infirmary and passing under the Banbury and the Woodstock roads. 1988 Frontline (S. Afr.) Apr. 24 There are two subways under the tracks, some 300m apart. 2004 Metro 1 Nov. (London ed.) 44/4 Replacement of bridges and subways with surface crossings. 2. An underground railway. Cf. earlier sub-railway n. 2.The usual term for the underground railways in North America, and for that in Glasgow. Often applied to other similar railways in non-English speaking countries (see quot. 1960), although metro n.² is also a common designation. Cf. tube n. 7b, underground n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > with specific situation or route > underground sub-railway1835 underground railway1845 subway1864 underground1866 tube1900 tube railway1900 metro1904 Met1909 the Tube1924 U-bahn1938 clockwork orange1978 1851 Daily News (London) 10 Nov. 3/6 Mr. Charles Pearson's comprehensive plan for improving the metropolis..by constructing a trunk railroad, in a well-lighted and ventilated subway, under the surface of the street.] 1864 Daily News 9 Feb. 6/6 No less than 23 [railway] projects..will have to be discussed. They may be described as follows:—..the Tower Subway [etc.]. 1890 Glasgow District Subway Act (53 & 54 Vict. c. 162) §7 The subway shall consist of tunnels or covered ways, and shall have two lines of rails. 1904 Daily Chron. 29 Oct. 3/7 The subway is being extended to Brooklyn by tunnel under the East River. 1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? i. 22 They were walking down the steps to the subway arm in arm. 1960 Times 31 May 11/6 Three new subways are being dug under the Ring [in Vienna] to relieve the growing traffic congestion. 1979 W. S. Graham in Nightfisherman (1999) 354 Thanks for the Glasgow Subway. I remember it well with its wheels and the smell of tarry rope. 2010 New Yorker 17 May 20/2 Some of the works were made listening to music while blindfolded, others while riding the subway wearing noise-cancelling headphones. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. ΚΠ 1822 Morning Chron. 5 Nov. The City of London Patent Subway Company. 1879 Engineering 26 Dec. 496/3 A company for the purpose of making..a subway tunnel and roadway partly under the River Mersey. 1888 Advance (Chicago) 26 Apr. 260 A subway commission that for two years have drawn good salaries for not putting their wires under ground. 1893 Mass. Acts & Resolves 1420 The board of subway commissioners. 1943 Life 19 Apr. 32/1 Mayor Kelly poses with subway workers in specially flag-draped stand. 1960 F. W. Boardman Tunnels vii. 94 In the Moscow subway system the Russians can boast of the most elaborate and impressive underground line in the world. 1985 Abingdon Herald 21 Feb. 1/2 The splendid subway mural beneath Stratton Way. 2005 K. Ascher The Works: Anat. of City i. ii. 43 A never-ending battle to keep the subway tracks clean. b. (In sense 2.) subway car n. ΚΠ 1887 Glasgow Herald 16 June 4/1 The subway cars would be much more comfortable than a tramway, because the tramways were more crowded. 1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer ii. viii. 256 Faces, hats, hands, newspapers jiggled in the fetid roaring subway car like corn in a popper. 2004 New Yorker 15 Nov. 106/1 The subway cars are brightly lit inside and graffiti-free inside and out. subway fare n. ΚΠ 1899 Glasgow Herald 10 Jan. 9/4 A report of a Parliamentary inquiry with reference to the Subway fares. 1957 G. M. Tucker Common-sense Econ. xix. 174 In the case of bus and subway fares, increase often does not bring added revenue because business falls off. 2003 New Yorker 29 May 34/3 Bram observed that in New York the subway fare almost always mirrors the cost of a slice [of pizza]. subway line n. ΚΠ 1868 Daily News 17 Sept. He suggested as a relief to the street traffic of the metropolis, the adoption of..subway lines of rail. 1905 Daily Chron. 8 Mar. 5/4 The collision on the subway line occurred on the north-bound track at Twenty-third Street. 2006 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 Mar. (Central ed.) a13/1 Projects, including..the extension of the No. 7 subway line. subway map n. ΚΠ 1900 Rep. Librarian State Libr. 1899 282 Subway map of Boston proper. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) v. 106 They stood there staring at the subway map. 2000 J. Williams Cardiff Dead (2001) ix. 120 I get the subway map and spend..hours taking the Z train all the way through Brooklyn. subway platform n. ΚΠ 1897 Publ. Doc. Mass. 1896 V. 108 The company may..maintain on the subway platforms booths of suitable size for the sale of newspapers and periodicals. 1942 H. Flannery Assignm. to Berlin x. 195 [The shelter] was filled with all the..people who had been on the subway platform. 2009 Time Out N.Y. 23 Apr. 42/2 We occasionally roam the subway platforms, hoping to catch..Poster Boy at work. subway ride n. ΚΠ 1897 Boston Daily Advertiser 29 May 6/3 (heading) A subway ride. 1915 A. Morgan Imprisoned Splendor 220 The swift subway ride, amid a suffocating jam of people. 2009 Sunday Independent (S.Afr.) (Nexis) 18 Jan. (Life section) 29 A 10-minute subway ride took me to the Vatican and St Peter's Basilica. subway rider n. ΚΠ 1905 N.Y. Times 26 Dec. 6/3 If..easterly and westerly transfers are granted to the elevated and subway riders. 1950 H. S. Commager Amer. Mind iii. 79 He represented..upper middle-class opinion—the opinion..of the commuter rather than the subway rider. 2011 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 22 Dec. 12 Subway riders can now sign up for e-mail alerts..when an elevator or escalator breaks down..in a subway station. subway riding n. and adj. ΚΠ 1909 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos Tribune 27 Mar. 7/2 (heading) Step to be taken to make subway riding comfortable for fair sex. 1918 Amer. Jrnl. Public Health 8 346/1 They [sc. magazines]..reach a thoughtful, leisurely audience rather than a hasty and subway-riding one. 1996 G. S. Golany & T. Ojima Geo-space Urban Design iv. 232 This seating shortage during rush hour has created the notorious scenes of subway riding in Tokyo. 2009 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 24 Sept. (Now section) 32 Every subway-riding New York girl needs a good tote for carrying..things that don't fit into purses. subway station n. ΚΠ 1887 Glasgow Herald 24 June The Maryhill route was nearer to Buchanan Street than the subway station. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 48/3 (advt.) An apartment..minutes from the Davisville subway station. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Nov. b8/5 Around the corner from a subway station. subway stop n. ΚΠ 1910 B. J. Arnold Rep. Pittsburgh Transportation Probl. Index 197 No subway stops in short haul territory. 2003 Globe & Mail (Toronto) May 31 t 3/2 The Greenpoint Tavern, an awesome dive just steps from the Bedford subway stop. subway ticket n. ΚΠ 1897 Boston Daily Globe 2 Sept. 6/2 What objection can the West End have to selling packages of 25 subway tickets good for use at any time? 1977 Economist 1 Oct. 91/1 Several thousands of makework jobs on public payrolls [in Japan] (like having one man punch your subway ticket and another collect it). 2009 S. Y. Fisher & S. Shelley Compl. Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance in your 20s & 30s (ed. 4) vi. 55 Check out commuter passes, which enable you to buy quantities of bus, train, or subway tickets at reduced prices. subway train n. ΚΠ 1883 North-Eastern Daily Gaz. 10 Jan. 4 A locomotive which works the subway train from the Steel Works to the slag tip at South Bank. 1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 27 Jan. 2/5 An aged woman was killed by a subway train today while trying to go into a car in which the door had been closed. 2003 Dreamwatch Aug. 68/1 At one point, Daredevil gleefully watches a rapist get chopped in two by a subway train. C2. subway alumnus n. U.S. slang (now chiefly historical) a supporter of a college football team who did not attend the college (usually in plural, also in extended use).Originally in reference to fans of Notre Dame, Indiana, who lived in New York City, where the team often played. [So called because they could travel to games by subway; compare Subway Series n.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > supporter quarterback1927 subway alumnus1933 1933 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 22 Jan. 8/8 New York City's ‘subway alumni’ those thousands of men and women who never set foot on a college campus but who..take their football as seriously as any ‘rah rah’ boy. 1942 Lowell (Mass.) Sun & Citizen-Leader 30 Dec. 13/7 Milt Morris, a ‘subway alumnus’ of the University of California at Los Angeles by way of Alhambra, Calif. 1962 Washington Post 5 May c1/1 The ‘subway alumni’ or the $2 bettors loved the come-from-behind colt [sc. Silky Sullivan]. 2010 Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 21 Nov. 14 Notre Dame returned to the Bronx for the first time in 41 years and sent the subway alumni home happy. Subway Series n. (also with lower-case initials) U.S. colloquial a series of Major League Baseball games played between two teams from New York. [So called because the fans of both teams could travel to games by subway.] ΚΠ 1928 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos-Tribune 25 Sept. 8/1 It looks like New York in the American League. The other half of the proposed subway series may..be closer to its goal line by tonight. 1971 H. Seymour Baseball xxii. 438 The Yankees..went on to beat the Giants in the third successive ‘subway series’ between the two New York teams. 2000 N.Y. Times 18 Oct. d1/3 The Yankees will play the Mets in the city's first Subway Series since 1956. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). subwayv. Brit. /ˈsʌbweɪ/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌweɪ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: subway n. Etymology: < subway n. 1. transitive. To provide (a street, city, etc.) with a subway (originally in sense 1, later usually in sense 2). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [verb (transitive)] > supply with underground passages minea1822 subway1866 1866 Civil Engineer & Archit. Jrnl. 1 Mar. 69/2 If the streets of London were generally subwayed, he had no hesitation in saying that with 2000 miles of subway, there would not be a day without an explosion, if the gas mains were laid in them. 1867 Minutes of Evid. Select Comm. Metropolis Subways Bill 253 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 495) XI. 203 To subway all London would come to upwards of 1,300 miles. 1893 Outing Oct. 7/1 Many of the principal streets of the chief cities [in Europe] are subwayed, and the pavement once put down is never disturbed. 1909 Life 4 Mar. 298/1 A small island called Manhattan which is punctured and subwayed like a Swiss cheese. 2011 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 12 Dec. b1 The Austin area could be fully subwayed for about $52 billion. 2. intransitive. North American colloquial. To travel by subway. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > [verb (intransitive)] > by underground railway subway1897 tube1902 1897 Boston Daily Globe 6 Sept. 12/4 Have you subwayed yet? That's the proper way to put the question. 1929 M. Lief Hangover 307 He subwayed up to Times Square. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 46 (advt.) You drive a Mercedes, but want to subway to the office. 2001 J. Lutz Night Caller xviii. 125 Coop subwayed downtown to the offices of Whippet Books on Hudson Street. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1822v.1866
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subwayn.

Compounds

subwayv.