Yellow Taxi (1909)

[neil]

on 13/6/05 5:40 pm, Benjamin Barrett at gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM wrote:

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> Slightly off-topic, but I recall that "yellow cab" is slang for a Japanese
> woman, generally tourist, who will sleep with anyone. I think I was told
> it's a Hawaiian word. This must go back at least 10 years.
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> I can't find this meaning on Google and don't have a good slang dictionary
> at my disposal...
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"In 1990, the terms 'yellow cab' and 'resalovers' became current. The former
[...] was a reference to Japanese girls in New Ysork, 'cruising and readily
available.'" -- The Times magazine, 3 June 1995

--Neil Crawford

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> Does anyone have anything for the "yellow" origin? Were the first taxis red?