cabbie


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cab·by

or cab·bie  (kăb′ē)
n. pl. cab·bies
A cabdriver.

[cab + -y.]
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cabbie

(ˈkæbɪ) or

cabby

n, pl -bies
informal a cab driver
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Translations

cabbie

cabby [ˈkæbɪ] N [of taxi] → taxista mf (archaic) [of horse-drawn cab] → cochero m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cabbie

cabby [ˈkæbi] n (= taxi driver) → chauffeur m de taxi
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
References in classic literature ?
"Pay the cabbie an' keep the change--I've got--hic--no head for business!
"Here we are," called the cabbie, and Jurgis awakened his companion.
He raised the hatch of his storm-tossed vessel and made the inquiry that cabbies do make in the park.
To help you determine how much you know about London, we've put together a quiz to help you decide if you'd make a good cabbie.
John Mitchell, 72, has been a cabbie since 1977 and says Birmingham City Council has never been a "friend" of the black cab trade.
I wonder if it was any of the cabbie families that the ambulances were trying to help?
Renfrewshire Cab Company called out the 18-year-old on social media, asking him to collect his passport and apologise to the blameless cabbie.
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board is reviewing the driver's license of a cabbie caught on video trying to overcharge Fil-American vlogger Hayley Dasovich.
The Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance had sentenced each of the men to three years in jail after they were found guilty of robbing the cabbie and threatening to hurt him.
Recently, the LTFRB summoned taxi driver Rolando Camara on the strength of an online posting by a passenger who said the cabbie had demanded P50 on top of the metered fare, drove a circuitous route to pad the amount, and kept loudly complaining and mouthing offensive things to her and her two young nieces.
A POLICE patrol is hailed by a cabbie as an angry cyclist stages a sit-in on his taxi.
The he enters details like name, cab owner address, whether cabbie came to drop any woman or not, etc.