taximan

American  

[tak-see-muhn] / ˈtæk si mən /

noun

Chiefly British.

• taximen
  plural

1. a taxi driver.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• taximen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of taximan

First recorded in 1920–25; taxi + -man

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

taximan taximen

Then a pilot develops co-ordinations of his nerve centres which enable him to handle his controls automatically, like a policeman on a motorcycle, a taximan in his cab.

From Time Magazine Archive

A detective told the taximan that the President's nod had merely been a greeting, not a summons..

From Time Magazine Archive

The taximan sped his unconscious fare to a hospital.

From Time Magazine Archive

The black car smashed in the taxi-car and pushed in the wheel badly and the taximan was mad and the other man was mad.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Didn’t you ask a taximan at the hospital how much it would cost to go there?”

From Swamp Island by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

There are not enough jobs, though many tasks are featherbedded to employ two craftsmen, four janitors or two taximen where one would do.

From Time Magazine Archive

The taximen bought the house he was renting.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many taximen provide sandwiches and drinks, sell flight insurance, even let holders of well-known credit cards charge their flights.

From Time Magazine Archive

Spanish taximen are men of honor, proud as hidalgos, and members of a Socialist union.

From Time Magazine Archive

The man was a stranger to the hall-porter, and he was not one of the taximen who habitually stood upon the neighboring rank; no one seemed to have noticed the number of the cab.

From The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer