Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place where taxicabs wait for passengers.
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- noun A place intended for
taxis to wait forpassengers ; ataxi rank .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a place where taxis park while awaiting customers
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Examples
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Boyd called the cabstand a "potential launching pad."
American Tabloid Ellroy, James, 1948- 1995
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His next chance of discovery came at the cabstand, where he climbed into a taxi and asked for Hotel Savigny.
Eight States Away Foster Trecost 2011
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The film opens with Travis Bickle heading to a cabstand on 57th Street to get a job.
Nick Carr: New York, You've Changed: Taxi Driver (Part 1) 2009
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It's no fun to be stuck in a strange neighborhood and have to walk a mile back to a cabstand.
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It's no fun to be stuck in a strange neighborhood and have to walk a mile back to a cabstand.
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Piccadilly, and the cabstand, and the carriages going to the levee.
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At four thirty in the morning, more or less, Paul was heading for a cabstand in the lower French Quarter after walking a friend home.
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004
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General was not in that condition when the sneers and jokes of these young beggars had much effect upon him: the cabmen and watermen at the cabstand knew him and passed their comments upon him: the policemen gazed after him and warned the boys off him, with looks of scorn and pity; what did the scorn and pity of men, the jokes of ribald children, matter to the General?
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And as he spoke, flinging himself into an absurd theatrical attitude, the men in the cabstand in Piccadilly wondered and grinned at the antics of the two young swells.
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When I finally reached the cabstand, there was a long queue.
Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005
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