taximan

American  

[tak-see-muhn] / ˈtæk si mən /

noun

Chiefly British.

plural

taximen

1. a taxi driver.

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Etymology

Origin of taximan

First recorded in 1920–25; taxi + -man

Example Sentences

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

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

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 Rohmer, Sax