Jaywalker
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1 min readDec 16, 2015
In the early 20th Century, ‘jay’ was a derogatory term for someone from the countryside. Therefore, a ‘jaywalker’ is someone who walks around the city like a jay, gawking at all the big buildings, and who is oblivious to traffic around him. The term was originally used to disparage those who got in the way of other pedestrians, but Motordom rebranded it as a legal term to mean someone who crossed the street at the wrong place or time.
