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Tardis, n. Chiefly Brit.
Brit. |ˈtɑːdɪs|, U.S. |ˈtɑrdəs|
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
[‹ TARDIS (acronym ‹ Time And Relative Dimensions In Space), the name in the science-fiction BBC television series Doctor Who (first broadcast in 1963) of a time machine outwardly resembling a police telephone box, yet inwardly much larger.]
In allusive use. Something resembling or likened to Doctor Who's TARDIS; spec.: (a) a thing which has a larger capacity than its outward appearance suggests; a building, etc., that is larger on the inside than it appears from the outside; (b) a thing seemingly from another time (past or future).
[1969Times 29 Mar. 22/3 His best poems are like Doctor Who's Tardis, the solid streetcorner policebox, which actually contains a sidereal spaceship.] 1985Christian Sci. Monitor 30 Apr. 35 It's..a tardis of a poem, unassuming, but renewing, roomy, opportune. 1988New Musical Express 24 Dec. 33 The shiny streamlined tardis of Kraftwerk. 1990Pink Paper 4 Aug. 12/4 This is the perception that comes from the Tardis that seems to be New Scotland Yard, timewarped in the nineteen-sixties. 1996Time Out 17 Jan. 41/3 One of the conveniences of having a Tardis for a stomach is that you can order loads of main courses. 1999J. Preece Good Beer Guide 111/2 A Tardis of a pub—the small frontage conceals a long pub, half serving as a restaurant (a good vegetarian selection).
Derivatives. Tardis-like adv. and adj.
1986Times 4 Dec. 15/6 *Tardis-like, the inner dimensions are at odds with the outer. 1987Marketing (Nexis) 22 Oct. The famous trading floor with its Tardis-like hexagonal boxes has already gone. 2000P. McCarthy McCarthy's Bar viii. 151 Small family homes that, Tardis-like, have miraculously created the space to accommodate big-boned American families. 2001Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 27 June 55 Only Mercedes-Benz's Tardis-like A-class comes within cooee of the Echo's space utilisation. |