Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An automobile that carries passengers for a fare, usually calculated by a taximeter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A public ‘cab’ or carriage which carries a fare-indicator. See
taximeter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an automobile with a professional driver which can be hired to carry passengers; -- also called a
taxi , and informally called acab or ahack . The driver of a taxicab is referred to as acab driver orcabbie , and sometimes as achauffeur orhackie .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
vehicle thatpassengers hire to take them betweenlocations of their choice, thefare being calculated with ataximeter ; ataxi orcab
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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New Yorkers, and Americans in general, are indeed given to using cab, cropped from the back end of the word taxicab, interchangeably with taxi.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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New Yorkers, and Americans in general, are indeed given to using cab, cropped from the back end of the word taxicab, interchangeably with taxi.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Driving a taxicab is one of the most dangerous occupations in Canada.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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A few years back, I got interested in taxicab tipping – and what influences how much people tip.
The Racial Tipping Point - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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A few years back, I got interested in taxicab tipping – and what influences how much people tip.
The Racial Tipping Point - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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I was not sure that this surmise was not due to an over-active imagination, but I was determined to get away from the man's scrutiny, so I called a taxicab and gave the driver my address.
Jacqueline of Golden River H. M. Egbert 1919
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In a sort of helpless, breakfastless rage we called a taxicab and went to Tish's.
Tish Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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He found himself incapable of work, and at three o'clock, to the surprise of his clerks, who had thought his unexpected visit must mean an important conference of directors, he called a taxicab and started for Westbury.
The Perils of Pauline Charles Goddard 1915
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Hotel, where he called a taxicab and drove to his offices.
Havoc 1906
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And then a little later, he called the taxicab, which allegedly took him to the scene of the crime.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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