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cab

[kab] / kæb /
NOUN
car for hire
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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

Now, he is safely away from that in the control trailer, doing the same job from a virtual cab.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Video shows a suited man climbing into the vehicle’s cab, the container lowering, and the truck pulling away.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Firefighters worked for nearly two hours to extricate the driver, using hydraulic tools to cut into the trapped flatbed’s cab.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

The following evening, Tuesday, June 23, Kerling shared a cab with his friend Leiner.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

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

He sent his telegram, and we cabbed it to Luzatti's.

From Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison

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 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




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