单词 | duck-shoving |
释义 | > as lemmasduck-shoving duck-shoving n. ΚΠ 1870 Notes & Queries 4th Ser. VI. 111 ‘Duck-shoving’..is the term used by our Melbourne cabmen to express the unprofessional trick of breaking the rank, in order to push past the cabman on the stand for the purpose of picking up a stray passenger or so. 1896 Otago Daily Times (N.Z.) 25 Jan. 3/6 ‘Duck shoving’, a process of getting passengers which operated unfairly against the cabmen who stayed on the licensed stand and obeyed the by-law. < as lemmas |
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