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cabmen

cabmen is the plural of cabman.

Meaning of cabman

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

Questions about cabmen

What is cabmen the plural of?
Cabmen is the plural of cabman.

Words near cabmen in the dictionary

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

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