cabman

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noun

The driver of a hackney cab.

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Meanings

nouncabman (plural cabmen)

plural cabmen

  1. 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
  2. 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

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nounsomeone who drives a taxi for a living

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taxidrivertaximancabdrivercabbyhack driverhack-driverlivery driver
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APA

cabman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cabman

MLA

“cabman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cabman. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cabman,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cabman.

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