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cab

[kab] / kæb /
NOUN
car for hire
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Mangione fled uptown on an electric bicycle, then jumped into a cab that took him to the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

What if launching a satellite was as easy as calling a cab?

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Consider when Gail and Otto arrive in Hollywood and hop in a cab driven by Richard Kind.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2026

A cab took him over the Queensboro Bridge, but he hit traffic.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

I take it and hop out of the cab.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

Refusing to give up, Foster had a board mix put together of the first performance and cabbed it to the radio station.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2015

Their daughter told them she "cabbed it" but they say they do not know how she actually traveled cross-country or where she has been staying.

From Seattle Times Jul. 26, 2013

On Thursday night, I cabbed it to my goddaughter’s house in Fort Greene.

From Slate Nov. 12, 2012

It’s like a slower, 1950s version of the real city across that cool bridge we cabbed over last night.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

So we strolled out easily and cabbed it back to the inn.

From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

The day before E3 officially kicks off this year, I’ll be liveblogging the Ubisoft press conference, then cabbing it over to the L.A.

From Forbes Jun. 2, 2014

Max is a dreamer; a lonely man whose ideal of running a limo service is still unrealised after 12 years of "temporary" cabbing.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was sick of it; and as soon as I could—close upon a year arter, though—I came up to London and took to cabbing, for I’d had quite enough of our old station.”

From Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon by George Manville Fenn

His sixteen "outsides" bestow upon me a supercilious look that conveys to me that they opine I am merely cabbing it to the station en route for a "suburban hop."

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss

"We seem destined to consort with the cabbing trade," I remarked; "the last office was over a mews, this place seems to belong to a carriage-builder."

From A Girl Among the Anarchists by Isabel Meredith




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