Full record for helicab n.
| Definition | a helicopter-based flying taxi |
| OED requirements | antedating 1950 |
| Earliest cite | John Weston, "Heli-cab Hack" |
| Comment | The OED has a 1953 example from Heinlein's Starman Jones.
Fred Galvin found a reference in the ISFDB to a story, "Heli-cab Hack", by John Weston in the June 1950 Amazing Stories: Derek Hepburn confirmed this with a cite from this story: the word was hyphenated in the title, but not in the story itself. |
| Last modified | 6 July, 2008 |
Citations for helicab n.
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| 1953 R. A. Heinlein Starman Jones (1975) xxii. 251 | The helicab was parked in front of the house. |
| 1964 K. Laumer in If Nov. 7/1 | It was ten minutes past high noon when I paid off my helicab, ducked under the air blast from the caged high-speed rotors‥and looked around at the sun-scalded, dust-white, mob-noisy bazaar of the trucial camp-city of Tamboula, Republic of Free Algeria. |