cabby
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cabby
First recorded in 1855–60; cab(driver) + -y 2
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To prepare for his 1976 role as Travis Bickle, a haunted, lonely Vietnam veteran turned New York cabby, De Niro spent a little over a week actually driving a taxi.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2022
Mr. Simon, 61, a former cabby and parking-lot manager who immigrated from Haiti at 13 and started showing symptoms of schizophrenia in his 30s, will probably spend the rest of his life locked away.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2022
“Opera?” the cabby asked as he pulled away from the curb.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2021
A carriage cabby sells cadavers to a medical-school doctor in 19th-century Edinburgh.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2020
Our cabby was craning out of his window with a furious, purple expression.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Robotaxis pose a fresh threat to London’s traditional cabbies, whose numbers have declined rapidly in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
The big question is will black cabbies join Uber in big numbers?
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
It was a unicorn software company, one that didn’t employ cabbies, but rather facilitated the connection of a driver to an independent contractor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Transit workers like train engineers, bus drivers, cabbies, and rideshare workers get passengers to the airport, while parking attendants and shuttle drivers help millions of others navigate arrival.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2022
“I’m sorry, the cabbies in this town are sharks,” he said in perfect English, without a trace of an accent.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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