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fare dodger
noun
A person who deliberately avoids payment for public transport.
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"'He'd had a drink and swore at the old man, but he's no ned or fare dodger," his uncle told the Daily Mail.
Rail passengers who shared their commute with the UK's biggest known fare dodger have called for him to be prosecuted, while others voiced sneaking admiration for his scam.
But hey, maybe the school fees have gone up!" Some joked that the fare dodger had become something of a Robin Hood figure.
Mr. McKeogh, a university student who was in Japan at the time, was pilloried on the Internet after an anonymous user falsely named him as the fare dodger.
A multimillionaire banker described as "the biggest fare dodger in history" was banned for life from working in financial services yesterday, as he claimed he had failed to pay for train tickets on only "a small number of occasions".
"Sometimes the truth gets in the way of a good story," he said about the way the incident was reported, unhappy that he had been declared a "fare dodger" by some.
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Some said sympathy for fare dodgers was increased by frustration with Southeastern's service.
A new lighting system and a crackdown on fare dodgers also helped to halve crime rates during that period.
Thus Tompkinsville, which is wedged between the better-established North Shore neighborhoods of St . Georgeand Stapleton, has become the hop-off point for fare dodgers who get on at points south.
I've seen for myself that the detection of fare dodgers in London can lead to the discovery of further offences by the same person, though whether this proves "broken windows" theory is another matter.
"Fare dodgers are a parasitic scourge on this city costing London millions of pounds," said the mayor Boris Johnson when he announced a clampdown on cheats, with more plain-clothes ticket inspectors and police operations.
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