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cabman

cabman noun: the driver of a hackney cab.

Noun

cabman (plural cabmen)

  1. The driver of a hackney cab.
    • 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.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC
  2. The driver of a taxi.
    • A girl in the bakery, aged sixteen, used oaths that would have defeated a cabman.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC

Synonyms of cabman

Forms of cabman

pluralcabmen

Origin of cabman

From cab + -man.

Words formed from cabman

Questions about cabman

What does cabman mean?
Cabman means the driver of a hackney cab.
What part of speech is cabman?
Cabman is a noun.
What is the plural of cabman?
The plural of cabman is cabmen.

Words near cabman in the dictionary

  1. Cablinasians
  2. cabling
  3. cabling up
  4. cablings
  5. cablish
  6. cabman
  7. cabmen
  8. cabnt mkr
  9. Cabo
  10. Cabo Verde
  11. Cabo Verdean

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