knowledge boy
British slang
noun
A prospective London taxi driver who is ‘doing the knowledge’ in order to gain a licence for a black cab.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in The Times.
- school-scholar
- school section
- school shark
- school ship
- schools inspector
- school snapper
- school sores
- schools program
- schools programme
- schools television
- school subject
- schoolteacher
- schoolteaching
- school time
- school trustee
- school vacation
- school voucher
- school wage
- schoolward
- schoolwards
- schoolwork
- schooly
- schoolyard
- school year
- schooner