Yellow Taxi (1909)

[Benjamin Barrett]

That sounds about right. It's interesting to hear about the word on the East
Coast. BB

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From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
neil

> 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.
>
> I can't find this meaning on Google and don't have a good slang
> dictionary at my disposal...
>
"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