cabbie

noun

cab·​bie ˈka-bē How to pronounce cabbie (audio)
variants or cabby
plural cabbies

Examples of cabbie in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Ask a cabbie in Boston to take you to the Harvard University Museums of Cultural and Natural History and not one in a hundred will know where to go. Stephen Jay Gould, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 Longtime San Francisco cabbie Matthew Sutter still owes $150,000 on his. Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2023 The clerk made a call to a local cabbie and said €70. Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023 And so the lonely Uber driver, lacking a cabbie’s local savvy and social network, finds himself with no other recourse than an old Snapple bottle. Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022 The main characters, steel-mill worker Steve Jackson (Poitier) and cabbie Wardell Franklin (Cosby), go on a wild, After Hours–like odyssey to find the thugs who robbed Steve of his wallet, which contained a lottery ticket worth $50,000. Vulture, 8 Jan. 2022 So the cabbie, prompted by Grist's ace climate writer to give his opinion on global warming, ended up going on for a full 10 minutes. Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2011 Everyone but the cabbie partied, downing bottles of Jack Daniels and beer. Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022 The Prius not only burned less fuel but was also lighter on consumables: the car's front brake pads lasted 185,000 miles, and that was with a cabbie at the wheel. Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 14 Dec. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1840, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cabbie was in 1840

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“Cabbie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cabbie. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

cabbie

noun
cab·​bie
variants or cabby
plural cabbies
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