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Meanings of cabby in English
Portuguese
motorista de táxi Catalan
taxista 
Someone who drives a taxi for a living.
Synonyms
Examples for "cabman"
Examples for "cabman"
1
The tidings brought by the cabman were of the most unexpected kind.
2
Having paid the cabman, she crossed the pavement and entered the hall-way.
3
For a drive of two miles, the cabman held himself tolerably paid.
4
The cabman put the trunk inside the long passage, and Evelyn said-
5
In Wellington Street he told the cabman to stop, and got out.
1
We found the cabbie who picked up Allardyce outside the gambling house.
2
Now the cabbie is looking straight ahead and pointing toward the windshield.
3
She took her change and handed a five back to the cabbie.
4
It's meant to protect the cabbie, but it comes only halfway up.
5
The cabbie circled a random block in Kensington for the third time.
1
My cabdriver sensibly zeroed in on the source and let me out.
2
The cabdriver grunts and pulls away from the curb, into the traffic.
3
The cabdriver has pulled up in front of the house next door.
4
The cabdriver finally enters the ramp and pulls up to the curb.
5
Is that everything? The cabdriver was standing beside her Louis Vuitton luggage.
1
The taximan was as proud as a kid with a new toy.
2
A taximan was threatened, robbed and had his taxi hijacked in Dublin last night.
3
Now this taximan is in his 30s and has had a number of consecutive, long term relationships.
4
He fumbled under his overcoat for loose silver, drew out a handful and paid off the taximan.
5
The taximan was thrown from his car, which was then stolen along with a sum of money.
1
The taxidriver did not recognize her and insisted his cab was taken.
2
A banker, a cop and a taxidriver had refused to break it.
3
The taxidriver said he knew the ladies by sight.
4
It seems the taxidriver had misunderstood her directions and taken her out of the way.
5
A New York taxidriver airing his grievances against customers; one "aristocratic Park Avenue" woman in particular.
1
The cab driver said it's adjacent to the Roland Garros tennis stadium.
2
I asked the cab driver to do a tour of St Helens.
3
The cab driver was an East Indian man who said very little.
4
Glancing over at the video store door, she saw the cab driver.
5
The cab driver is watching all of this with glum, gathering suspicion.
1
Some said he was a taxi driver, others said he was unemployed.
2
Tell the taxi driver 'hotel de nove palmas.' You got some cash?
3
No name: the taxi driver seemed to think that said it all.
4
The taxi driver bowed his head over it in a close scrutiny.
5
By now my taxi driver, a young man from Afghanistan, had arrived.
1
It could be enough to turn a hack driver into a Travis Bickle.
2
There is a hack driver outside who is even more suspicious than you.
3
The hack driver had not been paid, and in all probability would return for Maroney.
4
Sam advised if he could qualify for a chauffeur's license, to try for work as a hack driver.
5
Following the crowd to the outside he presented his tickets to the first hack driver he came to.
1
Carlos told Joseph that Zona had been shot with her livery driver named Martin.
2
The liveried driver emerged, walked smartly around the gleaming grille to open the rear door.
3
A stylishly liveried driver from the lead carriage jumped down and opened the highly lacquered door.
4
Ralph had a cook, two gardeners, six peacocks, and a handsome carriage with a liveried driver.
5
This afternoon, as I rode past, I saw an old-fashioned English coach, with a liveried driver and footman, turn into the gate.
Usage of cabby in English
1
No; she was pretty far gone when the cabby answered her signal.
2
The cabby cracked his whip, and away they rolled over the pavement.
3
I made my way back to Pearl Street and located my cabby.
4
The cabby helped me up and draped a rug over my knees.
5
Here he engaged a cabby to take him to the Russian's address.
6
To the best 'otel you know of, cabby, that's not too dear.
7
An' if you've bin gifted with compassion, cabby, don't overcharge your fare.
8
Being a cabby here is a vocation, like mountain-climbing or spree killing.
9
The gentleman got out fully composed, paid the cabby and quickly walked inside.
10
The three stepped out and Donaldson paused a moment before dismissing the cabby.
11
Youth asked cabby to take horse's shoes off, but cabby refused.
12
But the cab had vanished later, and the cabby was never heard from.
13
The cabby turned at him his enormous and inflamed countenance truculently.
14
At this, cabby looked down from his perch in sheer astonishment.
15
Bolivar paused only long enough to hand cabby a ten-dollar bill and cry:
16
My cabby himself had driven him to an address on East Twenty-first Street.
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