Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The business of owning, letting, or driving cabs.

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  • noun UK The profession of a cabbie, especially one who drives a black cab

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Examples

  • The entire British government has been corrupted by the Jews (to be fair, by others as well, but the Jews predominate), with a new term - 'cabbing' - invented to describe the easy way you can buy elected representatives.

    xymphora xymphora 2010

  • The latest revelations come only a few months after another Channel 4 'Dispatches report, by Peter Oborne, showed how large numbers of MPs were stooging (or "cabbing") for Israel … www. uruknet.de/?

    InI William Bowles 2010

  • Brad F.: I scold my wife about "cabbing" sometimes.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2009

  • You were dancing around and enjoying the festive cake and brownies at the JCC inaugural bar mitzvah … I mean inaugural ball, before cabbing to Chinatown and passing out in my bed.

    …and we’re back « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009

  • Anyway, as he admits, he's no longer reliant on cabbing for an income since he and Janis (Amy's mum, his ex, who suffers from multiple sclerosis) now run their daughter's business, which is worth £5 million - half of what it was the previous year.

    Mitch Winehouse on the Torment of Amy's Self-Destruction 2010

  • Whenever they went to Precipice, which was two or three times each week, Royce ordered several dishes from his favorite high-end eateries, cabbing them in from all across Boston and Cambridge.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • However, subsequent years have seen the once-fearsome Staten Island collective often appear more like a hip-hop episode of Fawlty Towers, as members have been distracted by squabbles and interests ranging from Wu-Wear clothing to New York cabbing.

    Wu-Tang Clan 2010

  • Anyway, as he admits, he's no longer reliant on cabbing for an income since he and Janis Amy's mum, his ex, who suffers from multiple sclerosis now run their daughter's business, which is worth £5 million - half of what it was the previous year.

    Ginny Dougary: Mitch Winehouse on the Torment of Amy's Self-Destruction Ginny Dougary 2010

  • Anyway, as he admits, he's no longer reliant on cabbing for an income since he and Janis (Amy's mum, his ex, who suffers from multiple sclerosis) now run their daughter's business, which is worth £5 million - half of what it was the previous year.

    Ginny Dougary: Mitch Winehouse on the Torment of Amy's Self-Destruction 2010

  • Anyway, as he admits, he's no longer reliant on cabbing for an income since he and Janis (Amy's mum, his ex, who suffers from multiple sclerosis) now run their daughter's business, which is worth £5 million - half of what it was the previous year.

    Ginny Dougary: Mitch Winehouse on the Torment of Amy's Self-Destruction 2010

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  • The definition given is for the word's use as a noun, but all of the examples currently shown on the page use it as a verb. It might be nice to see those definitions too.

    December 17, 2010