1. taxis - Noun
2. taxis - Verb
Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFurther study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles. Charles Scott Sherrington
No nice men are good at getting taxis. Katharine Whitehorn
Sit on a park wall Ask all the right questions "Why are the horses racing taxis in the winter?" Ezra Koenig
When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis. Danny Masterson
When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle. Thelma Ritter
I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write. Garrison Keillor