Meanings
plural cabmen
- 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.
1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC - The driver of a taxi.
A girl in the bakery, aged sixteen, used oaths that would have defeated a cabman.
1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
nounsomeone who drives a taxi for a living
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