cabman

English

Etymology

cab +‎ -man

Noun

cabman (plural cabmen)

1. The driver of a hackney cab.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 22

     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.

2. The driver of a taxi.
   • 1933, George Orwell, chapter XIV, in Down and Out in Paris and London‎^[1]:

     A girl in the bakery, aged sixteen, used oaths that would have defeated a cabman.

Synonyms

• cabdriver

Anagrams

• Macnab