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cab

[kab] / kæb /
NOUN
car for hire
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Abu Mahmoud, a cab driver, told me: "They inherited the country bankrupt, so people need to be patient. Things don't happen overnight."

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

In one notorious case a taxi driver was jailed because a passenger reported what he had said while riding in his cab.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Khan said there were cab ranks and bus stops near the street so people can still access the area with ease.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 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 got in a cab and asked to be taken to the American embassy.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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, after procuring a Whitaker Almanack, and hunting up the name of one of the most senior, I cabbed to Whitehall.

From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey

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

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

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

I went on cabbing it for a day or so, intending to keep at it until I could save enough to take me back to America.

From A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


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