What is "hackie"

Usage examples of "hackie".

Evidently the hackie figured that he would make out better cruising on this stormy night than by standing still.

The voice gave a destination near Park Avenue, told the hackie to hurry.

The cab driver was Moe Shrevnitz, as keen a hackie as any in Manhattan.

No fingerprints that have helped so far, no other clues from the premises, nothing in his papers or other effects, no hackie that took somebody there, no phone call to that number from the hotel, and so on right through the routine.

And then Norvell had a bright idea and it took a lot more small bills to get the hackie to take them to Belly Rave and an hour to find Lana of the Wabbits.

Ballister ordered the hackie to drive to the center of town, where monoxide would most likely replace the pollen or whatever it was that had strangled him.

At length the proprietor told a hackie to please take them away, and what happened to the official nobody ever found out, but Jerry awoke next morning in his hotel room with a pair of blue eyes wavering in front of his face.

That was why hackies preferred to pull by, and let their passengers venture the remaining distance on foot.

Moe Shrevnitz was lined up with hackies who were awaiting the after-theater trade.

Sulgate ignored the hackies until be came to one who was at the wheel of a green cab.

Also, he hadnt mentioned that he had no job and no prospects and that almost his last dollar had gone into paying the check at The Dancers for a bit of high class fluff that couldnt stick around long enough to make sure he didnt get tossed in the sneezer by some prowl car boys, or rolled by a tough hackie and dumped out in a vacant lot.