cabman

English

Etymology

From cab +‎ -man.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cabman (plural cabmen)

1. The driver of a hackney cab.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:

     At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.

2. The driver of a taxi.
   • 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

     A girl in the bakery, aged sixteen, used oaths that would have defeated a cabman.

Synonyms

• cabdriver

Derived terms

• taxi-cabman

Anagrams

• Macnab