hackman
noun
the driver of a hack or taxi.
hackman
American
[hak-muhn, -man]
/ ˈhæk mən, -ˌmæn /
noun
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hackmen
plural
Hackman
British
/ ˈhækmən /
noun
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Origin of hackman
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She retired weeping, and cried herself to sleep, and was awakened early the next morning by her hackman, to take her to the train, which was almost ready to start.
From Octavia The Octoroon by J. F. Lee
“Pitcher of George Washington!” murmured Tim, the hackman, staring at her wide-eyed.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
The hackman was struggling up-stairs with the trunk, Mrs. Gano bidding him have a care of the paper and the balustrade.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
Tim, the hackman, worked at logging in the winter months, too.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
Tim, the hackman, had brought the nurse home for a few hours and would take her back to Judy’s cabin.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
A wide-ranging probe by the department’s internal watchdog is scrutinizing potential improprieties in the contracting process, including evidence of personal enrichment by top officials, report Tarini Parti, Josh Dawsey, Michelle Hackman and Summer Said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Radford’s current owner, Hackman Capital Partners, defaulted on $1.1 billion of bondholder debt and turned the property over to lenders led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
“The studio market is evolving, and the financing environment for studio assets remains complex,” Chief Executive Michael Hackman said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Television City’s owner, Hackman Capital Partners, is already in the process of selling the historic Radford Studio Center, which gave L.A.’s Studio City neighborhood its name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Hackman must have seen the fight on the track and made a story of it.
From The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Rudyard Kipling
The cries of "hackmen, photographers and vendors of gimcracks," wrote a horrified Henry James, "at times drown out the thunder of the cataract."
From Time Magazine Archive
The reader is not called upon to bemoan the tribulations of temperance-taverns, the hardships of indiscriminate railroad-carriages, nor the rapacity of New-York hackmen.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
But the young hackmen terrified her with their hard, bold eyes and cruel, tobacco-stained mouths.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland
You ought to have seen the hackmen laugh!
From Gypsy's Cousin Joy by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Isvoshchiks, or hackmen, counted many exiles in their ranks, and so did laborers of other professions.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
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