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minicab
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
minicab
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
driver
▪ His second victim was minicab driver Javaid Iqbal.
▪ We do that in Parliament and my minicab drivers tell me that they work about 60 or 70 hours a week.
▪ During the day, he works a the Polytechnic Institute; at night, he is a minicab driver.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ During the minicab ride to Josie's place, Lucy did a little mental stocktaking.
▪ His second victim was minicab driver Javaid Iqbal.
▪ I was recently in a Mercedes minicab driven by a 97-year-old retired gangster called Scarred Harry.
▪ It says unlicensed minicabs are the most dangerous form of public transport.
▪ Motorcycles, coaches, minicabs, taxis, school buses and buses for the elderly will also be exempt.
▪ Not the richest of pickings, usually left to the fly-by-night minicabs.
▪ We do that in Parliament and my minicab drivers tell me that they work about 60 or 70 hours a week.
Wiktionary
minicab

n. 1 (context British originally English) A small car used as a taxi (rather than a traditional black cab) 2 (context British English) An unlicensed taxi

WordNet
minicab

n. a minicar used as a taxicab

Usage examples of "minicab".

She watched the crowds heading toward Camden Town, the steady stream of minicabs and taxis and buses heading up Chalk Farm Road toward Hampstead.

Hijaz Nordeen, the Cinnabar consular agent, lived in a Haven City townhouse, and it was there that Adele and Tovera had traveled on one of the electric minicabs which wound their way through the streets however the whims of their drivers chose.

The minicab drives slowly down a narrow street of pebble-dash semi-detached houses.

Among the leaflets for decorators, window cleaners and minicabs I was a postcard from Dolly saying she missed him and!