taxi-cabman

noun

A man who runs a taxicab; a cabman.

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Meanings

nountaxi-cabman (plural taxi-cabmen)

plural taxi-cabmen

  1. A man who runs a taxicab; a cabman.

    The whole central traffic of London was held up, and many collisions were reported between the demonstrators upon the one side and the police and taxi-cabmen upon the other.

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Origin

From taxicab + -man.

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