teleport n. 2
a person who is able to teleport, esp. by psychic rather than technological means; teleporter n. 1
Paranormal
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1949
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James Blish
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‘I doubt that you could keep him in jail for ten minutes.’ ‘Because he’s a teleport?’
Let the Finder Beware! in Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec. 58/1 -
1951
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Eric Frank Russell
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The bolts and bars and tell-tale beams could easily be detected by any mutant endowed with first-class ESP, but he'd be unable to do anything about them. On the other hand, a teleport could manipulated the lot without any trouble—if only he could see them. So the place is wide open to a multi-talented mutant such as a teleport with ESP.
Star Watchers in Startling Stories Nov. 54/1 -
1952
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Theodore Sturgeon
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I'll tell you. I'm the central ganglion of a complex organism which is composed of Baby, a computer; Bonnie and Beanie, teleports; Jane, telekineticist; and myself, telepath and central control.
Baby Is Three in Galaxy Oct. 58/1
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1954
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F. L. Wallace
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Gommaf was the teleport, or knew who the teleport was.
Simple Psiman in Startling Stories Oct. 88/1 -
1960
Randall Garrett
Laurence M. Janifer
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He’d found telepaths in insane asylums, and teleports among the juvenile delinquents of New York.
Occasion for Disaster in Analog Science Fact & Fiction Nov. 41/2 -
1966
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Larry Niven
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‘The penalty for theft is imprisonment, right? How do you imprison a teleport?’ ‘You don’t. You can’t.’
By Mind Alone in Worlds of If June 156/1 -
1977
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Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
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What if a teleport returned to Shanghai, or Los Angeles, or Rome?
Low Grade Ore in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Summer 16 -
2004
Steven Gould
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There was a price to be paid, being married to the world’s only teleport.
Reflex (2005) i. 13
Research requirements
antedating 1949
Earliest cite
James Blish, "Let the Finder Beware!", in Thrilling Wonder Stories
Research History
Bill Seabrook submitted a 1952 cite from Theodore Sturgeon's "Baby Is Three".Jesse Sheidlower submitted a 1951 cite from Eric Frank Russell.
(Earliest cite in the OED: 1960)
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