hackie

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noun

A taxicab driver.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounhackie (plural hackies)

plural hackies

  1. USinformalA taxicab driver.

    There was a taxi stand there and I yanked open the door. ‘He goes first,’ the hackie said, jerking a thumb at the cab ahead.

    1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 9
    1 more example

    […]a taxi came along and I flagged it and we got in. I told the driver, "Nine-eighteen West Thirty-fifth," and he started.[…] The poor girl didn't know what to do.[…] If she kicked and screamed I would merely give the hackie another address.

    1955, Rex Stout, “Die Like a Dog”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam Books, published 1994, →ISBN, page 163

Origin

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