Crossword clues for taxicab
taxicab
- It might have a long run on Broadway
- Waiter at a hotel
- Uber or Lyft alternative
- Part of the street scene
- It's often stopped with a raised hand
- It's often stopped on the street
- Hotel waiter
- Hack with a meter
- You can get its attention by raising your hand
- Vehicle that you might hire at an airport
- Vehicle hailed on a street corner
- Target of some urban hailing
- Some people take this to the airport
- Rainy day scarcity
- One way to get from point A to point B
- Metered-fare vehicle
- It moves about the city
- It might take you from an airport to a hotel
- Hack's car
- Hack, redundantly
- Common picker-upper
- City vehicle
- One or two vehicles?
- Airport queue unit
- Whistleblower's target?
- Its distance is measured within a meter
- A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- Something often looked for on a rainy day
- Hack's vehicle
- Transport some white wine, informally?
- Urban transport
- Metered vehicle
- Fare carrier
- Hailed vehicle
- Vehicle with a meter
- Vehicle for hire
- Passenger vehicle
- Hailed ride
- Airport waiter?
- Hired car
- Hailed car
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
taxicab \tax"i*cab\, n. an automobile with a professional driver which can be hired to carry passengers; -- also called a taxi, and informally called a cab or a hack. The driver of a taxicab is referred to as a cab driver or cabbie, and sometimes as a chauffeur or hackie.
Note: Taxicabs may be engaged by a prior appointment made, e.g. by telephone, or they may cruise for passengers, i.e. they may drive in city streets and stop to pick up pasengers when they are signalled by a prospective passenger. The act of signalling a taxicab (usually by a wave of the arm) is often called
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. a vehicle that passengers hire to take them between locations of their choice, the fare being calculated with a taximeter; a taxi or cab
WordNet
Wikipedia
A taxicab, also known as a taxi or a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride. A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their choice. This differs from other modes of public transport where the pick-up and drop-off locations are determined by the service provider, not by the passenger, although demand responsive transport and share taxis provide a hybrid bus/taxi mode.
There are four distinct forms of taxicab, which can be identified by slightly differing terms in different countries:
- Hackney carriages, also known as public hire, hailed or street taxis, licensed for hailing throughout communities
- Private hire vehicles, also known as minicabs or private hire taxis, licensed for pre-booking only
- Taxibuses, also known as jitneys, operating on pre-set routes typified by multiple stops and multiple independent passengers
- Limousines, specialized vehicle licensed for operation by pre-booking
Although types of vehicles and methods of regulation, hiring, dispatching, and negotiating payment differ significantly from country to country, many common characteristics exist.
Usage examples of "taxicab".
CHAPTER I MIDNIGHT VISITORS THE taxicab did not stop directly in front of the Germaine Apartments, and Marcus Beld knew why.
Kelly straight off asked for Taksim Square and Istiqlal and was directed to a dolmush, which we discovered was a taxicab, only it just goes one place and picks up lots and lots of people on the way.
OUTDOORS, Durand gestured his companions into a taxicab and spoke an order to the driver before getting in himself.
While the detective still stood near the train gate, Goldy Tancred, in the flesh, was riding up Fifth Avenue in a taxicab, with Bowser Riggins beside him.
Hallet carried a blue army automatic and Leaking the slightly smaller gun with which he had clubbed the cop in the taxicab.
Up ahead, an armored truck was roaring off into the maze-like depths of Miami Beach, and the taxicab was heading after it, which Margo wanted to do, too, but Nayre decided otherwise.
Barney and Old Jimmie talked to each other as the taxicab bumped through the cobbled streets, their talk being for the most part maledictions against Larry Brainard.
Then he changed into his work clothes and caught a taxicab out to the Quatro de Fevereiro Aeroporto to see what else he could find out about what had happened to his airplane.
Then, feeling resolute, she picked up her bags and headed for the unconvincing Santal the strange pink taxicab and the dark and stormy night.
John Scroggins alighted from the taxicab and entered another tall building, a swarthy, tall man who might have been an Armenian rode up with him in the elevator.
The Shadow, turning his gaze along the speedway, spied the lights of a taxicab approaching from the direction in which Carraza had come.
Miss Turkis Jellant--so identified from papers on her person--stated that she had been take to Our Mercy Hospital, following an accident with a taxicab, because it was the hospital closest the scene.
There was this black man in San Diego, a foreigner, South American, drove a taxicab: I stayed in his house a while, town called Chula Vista, he rented a room to me.
Occupied Paris did have its peculiarly charming aspect: quiet clean streets free of honking taxicabs and jammed-up automobiles, clear fumeless air, brightly dressed children playing in uncrowded flowery parks, horse carriages bearing women in striking Parisian finery, all as in old paintings of the city.
Grand Central Station near the taxicab entrance about two-thirty this afternoon, when this fellow Gimble shows with a suitcase and a briefcase, coming from the lower level train platforms.