gyrocab
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gyrocab (plural gyrocabs)
- (science fiction) A flying taxicab.
- 1951, Isaac Asimov, “Hostess”, in Nightfall and Other Stories, Green City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., published 1969, page 76:
- They were not there waiting for her, after all. She came upon them getting out of a gyrocab just as she emerged from the tubes a on to street level. The gyrocabbie, wide-eyed, gazed after his fares for a moment, then hovered upward and away.
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- Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “gyrocab, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.