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Hackman

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The driver of a hack (a carriage, cab, or taxi).

    "But he makes all his calculations with the nicest precision, and goes darting in and out among a Broadway confusion of busy craft with the easy confidence of the educated hackman."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From hack + -man.

Etymology 2

From Middle English Hackeman, Hakeman, an occupational name derived from hakman, hackeman, hakkeman (“a hacker, chopper, cutter”), equivalent to hack + -man.

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