taxicab

[ tak-see-kab ]

noun

a public passenger vehicle, especially an automobile, usually fitted with a taximeter.

Origin of taxicab

First recorded in 1905–10; taxi(meter) + cab¹

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

It came from the collection of Robert and Ethel Scull, who had made their money running a taxicab empire.
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Try to pay for a taxicab in Shanghai or Shenzhen with physical notes, and prepare for dirty looks.
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The mortally wounded Cherry lost control of his Maserati and the car careened into a taxicab, causing it to burst into flames.
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That makes it harder to get everything from a taxicab to a job.
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She'd seen ads for it on New York City buses and taxicab tops, the anonymous columnist notoriously vicious.
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For a few seconds the silence was unbroken save for a whir of a taxicab passing outside.
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With fingers that were almost frenzied, Houston copied the notation, closed the book, and hurried again for a taxicab.
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Still it was an entirely natural and easy thing to keep one arm around Maria when they got into the taxicab.
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Still, for the moment he obeyed instructions implicitly and went down the stairs gingerly and out to the taxicab.
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Lifting himself up on his hands and knees he saw Jim and Elaine scrambling into a taxicab.
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