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Definition of Cabman
1. Noun. Someone who drives a taxi for a living.
Generic synonyms: Driver
Definition of Cabman
1. n. The driver of a cab.
Definition of Cabman
1. Noun. The driver of a hackney cab. ¹
2. Noun. The driver of a taxi. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cabman
1. a driver of a cab [n CABMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabman
Literary usage of Cabman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1877)
"... Randolph, for Railway Offence, 19/ Hu Austin, Isaac, a cabman, for Receiving More
... 10/11 « 'cabman, for Plying for Hire in the Streets, ..."
2. Sketches of Life and Character: Taken at the Police Court, Bow Street by George Hodder (1845)
"THE JEW AND THE cabman. Fourteen shillings, indeed ! I won't give thee a farthing.
Base is the slave that pays.—Ancient Pistol. ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"LOOK AT THE cabman ! HE 's сот When LUTHER arose, О then and О then ! When LUTHER
arose, О then And lopped off a great bit, And the world it went very ill ..."
4. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"... apparently, than because, like "Noble Percy," "he wore his beaver up."—Lieut.-Col.
Munday : Our Cab-bilking (common), cheating a cabman out of his fare. ..."
5. Alice-for-short: A Dichronism by William Frend De Morgan (1907)
"GAMP HAD A CLASSICAL cabman, AND HOW THEY ENJOYED THE BALCONY IN THE MOONLIGHT.
HOW CHARLES WAS A BAD ARTIST, ..."
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