cabman

Definition

The driver of a hackney cab.

Etymology

From cab + -man.

Example Sentences

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