cabbie

noun

cab·​bie ˈka-bē How to pronounce cabbie (audio)
variants or cabby
plural cabbies

Examples of cabbie in a Sentence

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Hate crimes, particularly against Jews, have spiked in the city since then, most recently on Wednesday morning when a cabbie passing a yeshiva in East Flatbush, Brooklyn verbally assaulted a group of Jewish people before driving up on the sidewalk and trying to run them down, police said. Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 31 May 2024 Ask a cabbie in Boston to take you to the Harvard University Museums of Cultural and Natural History and not one in a hundred will know where to go. Stephen Jay Gould, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 Longtime San Francisco cabbie Matthew Sutter still owes $150,000 on his. Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2023 The clerk made a call to a local cabbie and said €70. Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023 See all Example Sentences for cabbie 

Word History

First Known Use

1840, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cabbie was in 1840

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“Cabbie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cabbie. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.

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cabbie

noun
cab·​bie
variants or cabby
plural cabbies
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