| 单词 | cab tout |
| 释义 | > as lemmascab tout cab tout n. (a) = cab runner n. (now historical and rare); (b) (now) a person employed to persuade travellers to hire a taxi from a particular operator (often an unlicensed or illegal one). ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger > cab-tout or -runner cab tout1869 cab runner1883 1869 Birmingham Daily Gaz. 5 Aug. 4/4 A cab tout..had been felled and mutilated..by a policeman simply for offering his services to procure a vehicle. 1883 Daily News 6 June 5/2 When the cab reaches its goal the cab-tout makes himself busy in unlading the luggage. 1922 C. E. Montague Disenchantment ii. 15 A little famished London cab-tout, a recruit, still rectilinear as a starved cat even after a month of army rations. 2014 Evening Standard (Nexis) 13 Feb. (headline) 57 Fight the menace of illegal cab touts. < as lemmas |
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