Meanings
plural gyrocabs
- literatureSynonym of aircab, a flying taxi, particularly a helicab or autogyro taxi.
They were not there waiting for her, after all. She came upon them getting out of a gyrocab just as she emerged from the tubes a on to street level. The gyrocabbie, wide-eyed, gazed after his fares for a moment, then hovered upward and away.
1951, Isaac Asimov, “Hostess”, in Nightfall and Other Stories, Green City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., published 1969, page 76Synonyms: aircab
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of aircab, a flying taxi, particularly a helicab or autogyro taxi.
Origin
From gyro- + cab under the influence of autogyro etc.
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gyrocab. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gyrocab
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