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  • noun A structure whose interior seems to be larger than its exterior.

Etymologies

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From TARDIS, the time machine in British science-fiction TV programme Doctor Who.

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Examples

  • A novel featuring the Third Doctor, Jo Grant, UNIT and Magrs 'own invention, Iris Wildthyme, a renegade Time Lady whose Tardis is shaped like a double decker bus and who claims to be the Doctor's on-off girlfriend.

    July Books 19) Verdigris, by Paul Magrs nwhyte 2009

  • (If the Tardis is in the background, of course everyone will assume that the picture is of Matt posing as Eleven.)

    One nice thing about the new Doctor... elevenseyebrows 2009

  • The rest of my time today I mainly spent assembling a large model of the inside of a Tardis from a paper kit.

    Autumnal katelnorth 2008

  • Several entries are testaments to the popularity of science fiction, among them Tardis from the TV series Doctor Who, Jedi from Star Wars, and Klingon from Star Trek.

    Boing Boing: September 22, 2002 - September 28, 2002 Archives 2002

  • As a result the house has earned the nickname Tardis, because it looks so much bigger on the inside than from the street.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • As a result the house has earned the nickname Tardis, because it looks so much bigger on the inside than from the street.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • And the bluetooth headset to communicate with Amy in the Tardis was also a neat new item too.

    Doctor Who : The Lodger – and the Time Lord mind meld head butt! « Show Me SciFi 2010

  • And the bluetooth headset to communicate with Amy in the Tardis was also a neat new item too.

    2010 July « Show Me SciFi 2010

  • The Three Companions of the title are Polly and the Brigadier, both repeated from their TV appearances by Anneke Wills and Nicholas Courtney, and Thomas Brewster, who was written into several of last year's Fifth Doctor audios, played by soap star John Pickard (and who at one point went off by himself in the Tardis, which is presumably the point where this story is set).

    The Three Companions nwhyte 2010

  • Henceforward it shall be known as the Tardis, of course.

    I Am Now a Citizen of SHED NATION yuki_onna 2009

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