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taxicab

[ tak-see-kab ]

noun

  1. a public passenger vehicle, especially an automobile, usually fitted with a taximeter.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of taxicab1

First recorded in 1905–10; taxi(meter) + cab 1
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Officers and Seattle Fire Department personnel found a taxicab and truck significantly damaged at the intersection, police said.

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She lost consciousness afterwards and “awakened in shock to find herself in a taxicab heading back to the designer’s apartment,” feeling “humiliated and traumatized and without recourse”.

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When she awoke, she was alone in a taxicab headed back to the home of an unnamed fashion designer who had introduced McKinney and Combs earlier that night.

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Under commission was a taxicab for a New Yorker who had initially ordered a coffin in the shape of the Guggenheim Museum, which, we all agreed, was not a particularly comfortable eternal resting place.

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It wasn't the first time the 74-year-old Engoron, a former taxicab driver who has spent two decades on the bench, lost patience with the defense in New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit.

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