cabby

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

To prepare for his 1976 role as Travis Bickle, a haunted, lonely Vietnam veteran turned New York cabby, De Niro spent a little over a week actually driving a taxi.

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2022

Mr. Simon, 61, a former cabby and parking-lot manager who immigrated from Haiti at 13 and started showing symptoms of schizophrenia in his 30s, will probably spend the rest of his life locked away.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 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

He said it was too early to asses the long-term impact but if prices remained high, "cabbies are going to have to work longer hours to make the money up".

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

London’s cabbies were fierce opponents of Uber after it launched in London in 2012, blocking streets and launching legal challenges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

From the Southgate Centre, on the city’s southern edge, to the downtown financial district, it seemed as if everyone, from students and shopkeepers to cabbies and the cable guy, were wearing Oiler sweaters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2025

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

Many college graduates were forced to work as cabbies or waitresses after graduation, but they retained the confidence of a public identity.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez