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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

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

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

Inside the cab or the tractor, there remains a steering wheel and seats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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

I don’t think he guessed we were cabbing it.

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

"Who's a-goin' to be bullied by any cove because he is a cabbing passinger?" and he gave Blake an almost imperceptible wink.

From Tom Gerrard by Louis Becke


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