Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The driver or keeper of a hack or public carriage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The driver of a
hack
Etymologies
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Examples
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I called a hackman, for my reading taught me what to do, and I told him to drive me to the Rookery.
The Jucklins A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895
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De Forest, once more himself, got their baggage checked to Jenkintown, and calling a hackman, as he had left his own team in the stable, they were driven to Mitchell's.
The Expressman and the Detective Allan Pinkerton 1856
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A kind of hackman general seemed to have the whole matter of transportation in his hands.
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872
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A kind of hackman general seemed to have the whole matter of transportation in his hands.
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 02 Mark Twain 1872
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Remember the movie Mississippi Burning? when gene hackman goes to that little social club over the barber shop and grabs the guy by the balls and then stares down the deputy? when the deputy was scared shitless and his eyes rolled around in his head like bb's in a nickel hand game where you rolled them into a hole.
"What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House..." Ann Althouse 2008
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They even attacked a black hackman, William Randall, beat him, took his hack from him, and drove it down King Street.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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Two black men died as a result of the rioting, including William Randall, the hackman.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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They even attacked a black hackman, William Randall, beat him, took his hack from him, and drove it down King Street.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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Then there was a clamorous demand for “wharfage,” and the hackman charged half a dollar for taking me a quarter of a mile.
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Two black men died as a result of the rioting, including William Randall, the hackman.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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Leonard Grimes was born free in Virginia in 1815. He moved to Washington, D.C. and used his job as a hackman (coachman) to help fugitive slaves escape from Virginia.
The Fugitive Slave Church: The Twelfth Baptist Church, Leonard Grimes, and Abolitionism in the West End – The West End Museum Grace Clipson 2025
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Leonard Grimes was born free in Virginia in 1815. He moved to Washington, D.C. and used his job as a hackman (coachman) to help fugitive slaves escape from Virginia.
The Fugitive Slave Church: The Twelfth Baptist Church, Leonard Grimes, and Abolitionism in the West End – The West End Museum Grace Clipson 2025
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