单词 | yellow cab |
释义 | > as lemmasyellow cab yellow cab n. U.S. a cab or taxicab painted yellow, (now) esp. one found in or associated with New York City.The earliest yellow cabs were horse-drawn, but they were largely replaced by motorized vehicles by the early 1920s.Cf. black cab n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a). ΚΠ 1884 Centralia (Illinois) Daily Sentinel 24 Apr. Two yellow cabs took up their stand opposite the Grand Central depot. 1885 Evening Observer (Dunkirk, N.Y.) 30 Jan. The yellow cabs in New York came out with a profit on their first year's business. 1923 Chicago Defender 10 Mar. 4/5 Yellow cabs on the streets of Chicago are a common sight. 1973 ‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green xi. 46 New York was throbbing..I could hear it even before my yellow cab had reached the Triborough Bridge. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 22 Feb. a18/1 The share-a-cab program..amounts to a sea change in the strictly defined social world of the yellow cab. < as lemmas |
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