Cabman
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The driver of a hackney cab.
"At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away."
- 2 someone who drives a taxi for a living wordnet
- 3 The driver of a taxi.
"A girl in the bakery, aged sixteen, used oaths that would have defeated a cabman."
Example
More examples"At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away."
Etymology
From cab + -man.
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