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Cab

noun

A compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits.

Small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood. Synonym: cabriolet.

A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money. Synonyms: hack, taxi, taxicab.

verb

Ride in a taxicab. Synonym: taxi.

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"Cab" Quotes from Famous Books

... to-day. There is a train at one o'clock. I can send a telegram from the station, and tell mother I am coming. I will go up- stairs now and pack," I cried, and she never protested a bit, but said quite quietly that she would order a cab to take me to the station. Talk about feeling small! I simply cringed as I went out ...

— The Heart of Una Sackville • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... more heroic if Clyde hadn't been such a ladylike gent. As it is, he's about as terrifyin' as a white poodle. So I'm still breathin' calm and reg'lar when I sees him rollin' up in a cab about seven-twenty-five. I'm at the curb before he can open ...

— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford

... cab was moving slowly, almost directly under the window, with a single patron—a slender man, sitting rigidly erect, in a short, black shell jacket, open upon white linen, a long black tie, and a soft narrow scarlet sash. He ...

— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer

... she now walked at random. She had made up her mind to call a cab, when she caught sight of the Seine. She ...

— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

... passed, and the Thursday, and the Friday's parting, harder for Bessie, as it seemed, than she had thought for. It was hard to raise her dear little head from my shoulder when the last moment came, and to rush down stairs to the cab, whose shivering horse and implacable driver seemed no bad emblem of destiny on that raw ...

— On the Church Steps • Sarah C. Hallowell

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