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CABBY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cabby mean?
• CABBY (noun)
The noun CABBY has 1 sense:
1. someone who drives a taxi for a living
Familiarity information: CABBY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who drives a taxi for a living
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
cabby; cabdriver; cabman; hack-driver; hack driver; livery driver; taxidriver; taximan
Hypernyms ("cabby" is a kind of...):
driver (the operator of a motor vehicle)
Context examples
Whip your horse up, cabby, for we have only just time to catch our train.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My cabby drove fast. I don’t think I ever drove faster, but the others were there before us.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You can drive off, cabby.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Drive us to some decent hotel, cabby, where we may have some lunch, and afterwards we shall drop down upon friend Lestrade at the police-station.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Pull up, cabby!
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Just pull up at a telegraph office as you pass, cabby.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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