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cab

[kab] / kæb /
NOUN
car for hire
Synonyms


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I hailed a passing cab and we sped the dozen blocks to the restaurant, which glowed in the darkness ahead like a lighthouse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Uber has won its bid to throw out claims worth about £340m brought by thousands of London black cab drivers and two former private hire firms.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Software engineer Simon Martin, 44, who lives in Ancoats, recounted how a cab driver told him he would have hesitated once to pick him up, when the area was riddled with crime.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

There are some beauty shots of the city, and then a shot of a Checker cab pulling up to Butch McGuire’s bar on Division Street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

He sighed, turning back ahead to watch for the next cab.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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 won't 'ave it, even if yer are a cabbing passinger.

From Tom Gerrard by Louis Becke

And then I’ll tell you I’m tired of this cabbing cruise, and I want to get to work again.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

To be sure, vettura driving is not like cabbing, and Gaetano was in the habit of getting out often and walking up the hills, thus exercising his liver.

From Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne


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