scooteristn.
One who drives, or travels on, a scooter (sense 4 or 5).
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brigantiner1555
gondolier1603
collier1716
Greenlandman?1785
junkman1795
surfman1816
Whitehaller1824
gig1833
yawler1833
coracler1834
keel-boatman1839
square-rigger1855
surf boatman1856
skiffman1868
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scooterist1919
launchman1924
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society > travel > transport > motorcycling > [noun] > motorcyclist > rider on motor scooter
scooterist1956
motor scooterist1960
1919 Model Engineer & Electrician 27 Feb. 142/1 The ‘scooterist’ is Mr. Franklin Gunther, First Secretary U.S. Diplomatic Service.
1956 New Yorker 8 Dec. 44/3 One of the owners..was a young man wearing a white crash helmet and lying supine on the pavement under his blue Vespa... As each new scooterist arrived, he would extend an arm upward to shake hands.
1959 Times 16 May 7/6 Does a scooterist pay his sixpence or a shilling and take up the space that will hold a mammoth Cadillac?
1976 R. Hill Another Death in Venice i. ii. 31 A flotilla of motor-scooters went by... There was something so utterly careless about the scooterists that he felt a pang of envy.
1981 Times 27 July 26/2 They withstood extreme provocation by large numbers of these scooterists.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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