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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

to hail a cab or

to flag down a cab.
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Cab \Cab\ (k[a^]b), n. [Abbrev. fr. cabriolet.]

1. A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually
a public vehicle. "A cab came clattering up." --Thackeray.
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Note: A cab may have two seats at right angles to the
driver's seat, and a door behind; or one seat parallel
to the driver's, with the entrance from the side or
front.
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Hansom cab. See Hansom.
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2. The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer
has his station. --Knight.
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Cab \Cab\ (k[a^]b), n. [Heb. qab, fr. q[=a]bab to hollow.]
A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37)
pints. --W. H. Ward. --2 Kings vi. 25.
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cab
n 1: a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive
where driver sits

2: small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a
folding hood [syn: cab, cabriolet]

3: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers
where they want to go in exchange for money [syn: cab,
hack, taxi, taxicab]
v 1: ride in a taxicab [syn: taxi, cab]
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Cab
hollow (R.V., "kab"), occurs only in 2 Kings 6:25; a dry
measure, the sixth part of a seah, and the eighteenth part of an
ephah, equal to about two English quarts.

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cab [keib]
Taxi

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cab

Droschke f; Pferdedroschke f; Fiaker m [Ös.]
cab

Kabine f; Fahrerhaus n
cab

Taxi n; Taxe f

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