Recent Examples on the WebThe 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 Lilly, the lone human on Satellite, makes her way as a cabbie by day and a bounty hunter by night.—Selome Hailu, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022 There's cabbie Jeff (Pat Healy), a textbook failure-to-launcher who lives with concerned mom Marion (Carol Burnett).—Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2022 See More
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