cab

plural cabs

1. A compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.

   Synonyms: driver's compartment

2. A similar compartment in other vehicles.

   Dad looked up to catch sight of the man in the crane’s cab. He knew that DEVILISH smirk anywhere. It was Fingers.

   2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 324

3. A shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
4. historicalAny of several two- or four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.

   “There will soon be very few hansom cabs left,” said Mrs. Elliot. “And four-wheeled cabs—I assure you even at Oxford it’s almost impossible to get a four-wheeled cab.”

   1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC

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   Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably, as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two, it all fitted well. There was no bearing rein—no curb—nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!

   [1877], Anna Sewell, “A London Cab Horse”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part III, page 158

5. Synonym of taxi, a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys.

   a cab ride

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   to take a cab

   And I'm phoning a cab / 'Cause my stomach feels small / There's a taste in my mouth / And it's no taste at all

   1971, David Bowie, “Queen Bitch”, in Hunky Dory

   I whistled for a cab, and when it came near / The license plate said "Fresh", and it had dice in the mirror / If anything, I could say that this cab was rare / But I thought "Nah, forget it, yo home to Bel-Air!"

   1992, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, Will Smith (lyrics), Quincy Jones and DJ Jazzy Jeff (music)

   “I like the system as a cab driver,” he said. “I’m used to it. I like to just pick up a person. Tell me where you’re going, I’ll know where I’m going. It’s easier for me.”

   2017 October 20, Cecilia Saixue Watt, “'There's no future for taxis': New York yellow cab drivers drowning in debt”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms: taxi

present singular third person cabs · participle present cabbing · participle past cabbed · past cabbed

1. To travel by taxicab.

plural cabs · alternative kab

1. historicalunits of measureA former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.

   […] in the famine of Samaria […] the fourth part of a cab of pigeon's dung was sold for five pieces of silver […]

   1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.3

plural cabs

1. informalvideo gamesAn arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
2. abbreviationclippingWindowsClipping of cabinet file (“a compressed library archive file”).

plural cabs

1. abbreviationinformaluncountableusuallybeveragesShort for cabernet sauvignon

plural cabs

1. alternativeAlternative form of Cab.

1. USabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Civil Aeronautics Board.
2. UKabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Citizens Advice Bureau.
3. IrelandabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Criminal Assets Bureau.
4. USabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Combat Action Badge.
5. rail transportThe station code of Causeway Bay in Hong Kong.

plural CABs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableemergency medicineInitialism of chest compressions, airway and breathing.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehuman sciencesInitialism of Cognition, Affect, and Behavior.

   Synonyms: ABC

3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of caffeinated alcoholic beverage.

plural Cabs

1. abbreviationcountableuncountableAbbreviation of Cabernet Sauvignon wine.

   “So you're drinking some Cabs then, right?” she asked. ¶ I told her that indeed I was. […] Cabernet Sauvignon grows just about anywhere; nearly every wine-growing country has its Cab.

   2005, Maureen Christian Petrosky, The Wine Club: A Month-by-Month Guide to Learning about Wine with Friends, Des Moines, IA: Meredith Books, →ISBN, page 34

plural Cabs · alternative cab

1. hobbiesA type of aerial spin; a switch frontside rotation.