From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: john{at}jaka.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Oxford

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:29:12 -0500, solar penguin wrote:

> But you've haven't explained one very important point: Does your
> dictionary include the word TARDIS?  And if so how does it define it?

TARDIS:
  Brit.
/tds/
, U.S. /trds/
Forms:  also with lower-case initial.
Etymology:  < TARDIS (acronym < Time And Relative Dimensions In Space),
the name in the science-fiction BBC television series Doctor Who (first
broadcast in 1963) of a time machine outwardly resembling a police
telephone box, yet inwardly much larger.... Chiefly Brit.
Categories >>
 
  In allusive use. Something resembling or likened to Doctor Who's TARDIS;
  spec.:  (a) a thing which has a larger capacity than its outward
  appearance suggests; a building, etc., that is larger on the inside than
  it appears from the outside;  (b) a thing seemingly from another time
  (past or future).

If you're interested in SF and words, then OUP's Brave New Words is a good
book - a work of love by some of the OED lexicographers to put together a
book of SF related words.

 J

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