cabby
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After moving to DeKalb, Ill., west of Chicago, to be closer to his brother, he worked as a cabby and as an Uber driver.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
Clean sounds a little like a cabby whom cinephiles became familiar with in the 1970s, no?
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
We asked the cabby if he had ever tried a cupcake.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2022
A carriage cabby sells cadavers to a medical-school doctor in 19th-century Edinburgh.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2020
The cabby makes a few other attempts to get a conversation going, but Alicia just nods or murmurs a little, so the guy gives up and punches up a country station on the radio.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
Steve McNamara, general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association, which represents the famously opinionated cabbies, attributed their decline to the pandemic and said numbers would stabilize in the coming years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
The big question is will black cabbies join Uber in big numbers?
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
It was a unicorn software company, one that didn’t employ cabbies, but rather facilitated the connection of a driver to an independent contractor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Transit workers like train engineers, bus drivers, cabbies, and rideshare workers get passengers to the airport, while parking attendants and shuttle drivers help millions of others navigate arrival.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2022
“I’m sorry, the cabbies in this town are sharks,” he said in perfect English, without a trace of an accent.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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