单词 | autostop |
释义 | autostopn.2 Esp. in French contexts: hitch-hiking. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > hitch-hiking autostop1938 hitch-hiking1959 hitching1963 1938 Los Angeles Times 4 Sept. iii. 8/3 Thumbing a ride is called auto-stop, and so far it has proved rather unsuccessful because of the few automobiles on French roads. 1950 Winnipeg Free Press 5 July 19/7 Mme. Frere..had told me many stories of the difficulty of autostop. 1966 ‘E. Peters’ Piper on Mountain iii. 51 Some people do not approve of auto-stop. 1996 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 16 June 19 I was ‘fresh’ out of school and doing Italy the slow way by autostop. 2000 Independent (Nexis) 26 Aug. 8 The D632, one of the lovely minor roads that meander across rural France... The driver who dropped me off at dusk in the middle of nowhere cheerfully observed, ‘auto-stop is difficult around here’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > see alsoalso refers to : auto-stopn.1 < n.21938 see also |
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