gypsy cab

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noun

a taxicab that is licensed only to pick up passengers on call by telephone, but that often illegally seeks passengers on the street.

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Origin of gypsy cab

An Americanism dating back to 1960–65

Abraham, a yellow cab driver and student, feels that blacks are targeted unfairly by the police.
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I actually found it quite pleasurable, and it prepared me for this strange, gypsy lifestyle of an actor.
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In a bizarre twist to proceedings, Miss Manners sought to have her £30 cab fare from her Kensington flat to court refunded.
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Cosby then allegedly ordered a pre-paid yellow cab that transported Allison home.
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At a quarter past midnight, all her friends gathered at me and then they went off to party and I went home in a cab.
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It seemed rather strange to be spoken to by a cab-horse, but Davy answered that he was feeling quite well.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
But Mamma and Papa and Judy had quitted the cab, and all the luggage was being taken into the house.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
He got her into a cab at last, and they had reached the Haggards' house in May Fair, at which, they were stopping for the night.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Then, his hand resting on the handle of the cab-door, this expression suddenly changed to one of alert suspicion.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
Come away, my lady; it won't be long till we meet a cab or something to fetch us where you please.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu