faredodger

plural faredodgers

1. alternativeAlternative form of fare dodger.

   Queue jumpers and faredodgers are far from being an Indian phenomenon.

   1980, Himmat, volume 17, unnumbered page

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   […] roving inspectors to make spot checks in order to deter faredodgers.

   1987, R. W. Faulks, Bus and Coach Operation, Butterworths, page 199

   Police officers and prosecutors were forced to spend sizeable proportions of their capacity on arresting and prosecuting faredodgers.

   1995, Cyrille Fijnaut, Johan Goethals, Tony Peters, Lode Walgrave, editors, Changes in Society, Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe: A Challenge for Criminal Justice in Europe, Kluwer Law International, →ISBN, page 183

   The shortest green times in London are about ten seconds (these are the nervy, scampering green phases where cars dash across Oxford Street, or out into Piccadilly — with the last, guilty car trying to merge with the group in front, like a faredodger shuffling behind you through an automatic Underground ticket barrier).

   2002, Ian Parker, “Traffic”, in Peter Wollen, Joe Kerr, editors, Autopia: Cars and Culture, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 300

   Where once his parents had ridden in a train to Delhi and resisted the desperate appeals to be let in, made by those without tickets hanging on the outside, Saleem is now himself a faredodger on the train to the capital, clamouring for admittance.

   2004, Neil Ten Kortenaar, Self, Nation, Text in Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 205

   You stand up, say you're going to build more prisons, lock up burglars, place more bobbies on the beat and give your Gatling gun a good, chattering workout next time you spot a faredodger on the bus.

   2004 October 7, “That left eye looked Clint Eastwoodish to me”, in Daily Mail