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CABMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cabman mean? 

CABMAN (noun)
  The noun CABMAN has 1 sense:

1. someone who drives a taxi for a livingplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CABMAN (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 ("cabman" is a kind of...):

driver (the operator of a motor vehicle)


 Context examples 


I suppose that there has been no answer from my cabman advertisement?

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

Here the cabman was directed to wait.

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

He struck his stick sharply upon the ground, on which a cabman, his whip in his hand, sauntered over from a four-wheeler which stood on the far side of the street.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I should recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to say that you have thrown in your lot with me.

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

The whole central traffic of London was held up, and many collisions were reported between the demonstrators upon the one side and the police and taxi-cabmen upon the other.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“May I introduce you to Mr. Sherlock Holmes?” he said to the cabman.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes.

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

The Professor watched whilst I went downstairs with Quincey Morris, and sent one of the maids to pay off one of the cabmen who were waiting.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Into this hansom you will jump, and you will drive to the Strand end of the Lowther Arcade, handing the address to the cabman upon a slip of paper, with a request that he will not throw it away.

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



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