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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cabbie
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Holmes did not wait to pay the cabbie, but ran inside.
▪ Holmes turned to urge the cabbie on, as the horror dawned on me.
▪ I can't beat a London cabbie in rush-hour traffic.
▪ I once had a cabbie called Supersad Morgan.
▪ It will take helpful cabbies, pleasant shopkeepers, friendly hoteliers and a Valley-wide rudeness-free zone.
▪ The former Flatbush cabbie is showing off his suits: Pierre Cardin, all-wool, $ 7. 50.
▪ The old hut's been converted into a flower-shop, but the cabbies say they wanted to keep it for themselves.
▪ Then first one, then another and finally eight cabbies all wandered over to see what the fuss was.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cabbie

also cabby, "cab-driver," 1859, from cab (n.) + -ie. Also see taxi (n.).

Wiktionary
cabbie

n. A cabdriver, someone who drives a taxi.

Wikipedia
Cabbie

Cabbie may refer to:

  • A taxicab driver
  • Lee Mroszak, a.k.a. Crazy Cabbie, deejay and former regular guest on The Howard Stern Show
  • Cabbie Richards, Canadian TV personality
  • London Cabbie, a board game

Usage examples of "cabbie".

Moon said when the cabbie parked in a lot occupied by scores of bicycles and a couple of dozen cars and trucks.

Plastic statues of two fighting cocks facing each other in attack positions were mounted on the hood, a location that forced the cabbie to tilt his head to see past them when he rounded a curve.

Colonel William stood before the passenger door, waiting for the cabbie to open it.

The cabbie swung open the passenger door and Colonel William climbed into the cab.

Colonel William tapped briskly upon the glass partition that separated the cabbie from himself.

One final cab drew up, this bearing the cabbie Will had passed his tickets to.

The cabbie had brought his brother with him, the one with the broken legs.

The cabbie climbed down from his mount, opened an umbrella and then a passenger door.

I heard him give instructions to the cabbie, and then I turned around to get you.

The Plaza was only ten blocks away, but we tipped the irate cabbie exorbitantly.

They sometimes used cabbies as messengers, particularly when they wanted someone from the school brought to them.

Jake had asked the cabbie to drop them off at Lexington and Fifty-ninth, just to be on the safe side, and after looking to Callahan for approval, he gave the sai all but their last two dollars.

This was to be our last meeting of this cell of the movement, and what Sena told us about the Brown cabbie makes the move imperative.

Some of the other cabbies and hustlers had ambled over to see what was happening.

She had a standing order with her Bangladeshi cabbie now, who was faithfully at the entrance to the Bellevue Apartments every morning at three fifty-five.