cab-driver

plural cab-drivers

1. alternativeAlternative form of cabdriver.

   The cab-driver went down to the yard, and drove his hansom round to the house door.

   1907 June 21, R. Norman Silver, “For Her Sister’s Sake or The Lavenden Secret”, in Irvine Herald and Ayrshire Advertiser, thirty-seventh year, number 1890, Irvine, chapter XXVIII (Merivale Plays His Game), page 2, column 3

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   […] concealment is the object in both these instances, which end would be entirely frustrated in the cabriolet, the limits of which could not contain the live lumber and nocturnal loads alluded to in the cab-driver’s defence.

   1825 March 23, The National Gazette and Literary Register, volume V, number 1362, Philadelphia, Pa., page [2], columns 1–2

   […] they found a good many young ladies, and various old gentlemen, and a plentiful sprinkling of hackney-coachmen and cab-drivers, all drinking and talking together; […]

   1837, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Making a Night of it”, in Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. The Second Series, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, page 46

   This has been going on for a while - ever since I came of drinking age and quickly learnt that a version of the truth on most national or local matters or at least an inkling can be found in the stranger sitting next to me in the pub; that woman in the mathree; that cab-driver late at night.

   2003, Kwani?, number 4, Kwani Trust