CABBY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cabby mean? 

• CABBY (noun)
  The noun CABBY has 1 sense:

1. someone who drives a taxi for a living

  Familiarity information: CABBY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CABBY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who drives a taxi for a living

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cabby; cabdriver; cabman; hack-driver; hack driver; livery driver; taxidriver; taximan

Hypernyms ("cabby" is a kind of...):

driver (the operator of a motor vehicle)

 Context examples 

Whip your horse up, cabby, for we have only just time to catch our train.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My cabby drove fast. I don’t think I ever drove faster, but the others were there before us.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You can drive off, cabby.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Drive us to some decent hotel, cabby, where we may have some lunch, and afterwards we shall drop down upon friend Lestrade at the police-station.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pull up, cabby!

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Just pull up at a telegraph office as you pass, cabby.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)