单词 | butter-basher |
释义 | > as lemmasbutter-basher butter-basher n. slang (depreciative) a person who has recently taken up work as a taxi driver, esp. during a strike.On the (uncertain) origin of the term see note at butter boy n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by vehicles plying for hire > [noun] > driving or hiring of cabs > driver of hired cab > driver of taxi-cab > new butter-basher1939 butter boy1939 1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? xv. 216 Contemptuous cabmen, therefore, called these blacklegs ‘Butter-Bashers’. < as lemmas |
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