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

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Etymology

Origin of taximan

First recorded in 1920–25; taxi + -man

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

taximan taximen

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

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

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

There he found Sowerby, very red faced and humid, and a taximan who sat stolidly surveying the Embankment from the window.

From The Yellow Claw by Sax Rohmer

United Air Lines recently began reserving seats on connecting air taxis for its customers, and taximen would like the airlines to sell tickets too.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had to keep a critical eye upon efforts of various agencies to "organize" the city's taximen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last autumn the taximen attempted to put the two parsons on a monthly salary instead of paying them pro rata.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Do we have to go into the bread lines?" wailed truckmen and taximen.

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

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