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单词 chair-marking
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chair-marking
chair-marking n. slang (see quots. and sense 14); so chair-mark v. and n., chair-marked adj.
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1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Sept. 7/3 Unless these particulars are filled in no cabman can get employment; and it is almost as difficult for him if the licence is ‘chair-marked’. This is done in several ways: one is by writing big; another by writing out the date..a third by using red..ink. ‘Chair-marking’ is generally the result of spite... At Marylebone..a cab proprietor was fined £5 and costs for ‘chair-marking’.
1894 Daily News 23 Oct. 2/6 This he contended was a ‘chair mark’, conveying to other proprietors the information that he had not paid his cab hire up.
1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? 218 Certain employers attempted to pass comments about drivers..by writing the date in code... It was called: ‘chairmarking’.
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