I ran a search on that too.

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Numerous dictionary sites tell us that ped-xing is a contraction for pedestrian crossing. And so it is. I wasn't aware, until I tried to find verification for my own recollection of where I learned the term, that it's also the name of a pop star or group.

I think I first read the term as a synonym for putting one's shoulder to the wheel and nose to the grindstone, to getting down to doing the necessary work at hand, in Raymond Mungo's Famous Long Ago. It doesn't show up in the Online Etymology Dictionary, though somehow I didn't expect to find it there.

My searches haven't found any additional instances of ped-xing being used as Mungo used it. There are probably some out there, but I'm not about to do the necessary foot work (or click work) to find them.

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