"motorman's friend" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "motorman's friends",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "motorman's friend (plural motorman's friends)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Joshua Benjamin Freeman, In Transit, page 14",
          "text": "Older trolley drivers also developed urinary problems and some had to resort to “the motorman's friend,\" a urine collection tube and bottle that was strapped to the leg.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Cecil Adams, Ed Zotti, Return of the Straight Dope: Still More from the Popular Newspaper Column, page 33",
          "text": "The system used for urination was a version of the time-honored 'motorman's friend', so called because the hose-and-bag unit was worn by the streetcar motorman, whose job gave him little opportunity for a rest stop.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Lee Edwards, The Conservative Revolution: The Movement that Remade America, page 151",
          "text": "In past filibusters, senators had relied upon “the motorman's friend” (a long tube attached to the waist and running down the inside of a pants leg) when they had to empty their bladder but could not leave the floor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Dan Rather, Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News",
          "text": "When necessary I relieved myself in a version of the old “motorman's friend,” proving once again that there is no dignity in television.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device strapped to a person's leg to enable urination without use of a restroom."
      ],
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      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see motorman, friend."
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          "motorman",
          "motorman#English"
        ],
        [
          "friend",
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        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "28 72",
          "word": "urinal"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "motorman's friend"
}

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    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "motorman's friends",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "motorman's friend (plural motorman's friends)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "urinal"
    }
  ],
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Joshua Benjamin Freeman, In Transit, page 14",
          "text": "Older trolley drivers also developed urinary problems and some had to resort to “the motorman's friend,\" a urine collection tube and bottle that was strapped to the leg.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Cecil Adams, Ed Zotti, Return of the Straight Dope: Still More from the Popular Newspaper Column, page 33",
          "text": "The system used for urination was a version of the time-honored 'motorman's friend', so called because the hose-and-bag unit was worn by the streetcar motorman, whose job gave him little opportunity for a rest stop.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Lee Edwards, The Conservative Revolution: The Movement that Remade America, page 151",
          "text": "In past filibusters, senators had relied upon “the motorman's friend” (a long tube attached to the waist and running down the inside of a pants leg) when they had to empty their bladder but could not leave the floor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Dan Rather, Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News",
          "text": "When necessary I relieved myself in a version of the old “motorman's friend,” proving once again that there is no dignity in television.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device strapped to a person's leg to enable urination without use of a restroom."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see motorman, friend."
      ],
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  ],
  "word": "motorman's friend"
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