jaywalk, early doors early trots

The lights Shanghai embedded in some major crosswalks to guide pedestrians glued to their smartphones are part of a system that also includes cameras to track jaywalkers.


 early doors early trots

 early doors 

Etymology[edit]

When English pubs closed in the afternoon, customers who were waiting or arrived soon after the pub re-opened in the evening were known as 'early doors'.

Adjective[edit]

early doors (not comparable)

1. (Northern England) Early, near the start or beginning

Adverb[edit]

early doors (not comparable)

1. (Northern England) Early; at a time before expected; sooner than usual.

Noun[edit]

early doors pl (plural only)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) women's drawers.

Jaywalking occurs when a pedestrian walks in or crosses a roadway that has traffic. The term originated with "jay-drivers", people who drove horse-drawn carriages and automobiles on the wrong side of the road, before taking its current meaning.

An anti-jaywalking poster created in 1937 as part of the United States WPA's Federal Art Project

The word jaywalk is not historically neutral.^[5] It is a compound wordderived from the word jay, an inexperienced person and a curse word that originated in the early 1900s, and walk.^[6] No historical evidence supports an alternative folk etymology by which the word is traced to the letter "J" (characterizing the route a jaywalker might follow).