cabman
nounEtymology From cab + -man.
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
- cabdriver
- Derived terms
- taxi-cabman