butter-bashern.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 boyn.
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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. HodgeCab, Sir? xv. 216 Contemptuous cabmen, therefore, called these blacklegs ‘Butter-Bashers’.