Hackman
name, noun
name, noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"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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