cabdriver
cab·driv·er [ ˈkab-ˌdrī-vər]
[ˈkab-ˌdrī-vər]
Recent Examples on the Web
//Many of the more than 4,000 cabdrivers who bought medallions in that period were low-income immigrants who did not speak English fluently and signed interest-only loans or other lopsided agreements.
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BostonGlobe.com, "Federal investigation targets a loan system crushing New York cabdrivers - The Boston Globe," 11 Sep. 2019
//Many San Francisco cabdrivers say they are mired in debt paying off their $250,000 medallions — permits allowing them to run their own cabs.
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Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, "‘We cannot make a living’: SF cabdrivers’ debts mount amid Uber, Lyft battle," 23 Aug. 2019
//But the band was dissolved that year, soon after Dudu Ndlovu, Mr. Clegg’s drummer and onstage dance partner, was shot to death, apparently while trying to mediate in a conflict between rival cabdrivers.
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Alan Cowell, New York Times, "Johnny Clegg, South African Singer Who Battled Apartheid With Music, Is Dead at 66," 17 July 2019
//The state’s attorney general has asked the Nebraska Supreme Court to allow the use of the powerful, synthetic painkiller in the execution of Carey Dean Moore, first sentenced to death in 1980 for killing two Omaha cabdrivers.
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James Hohmann, Washington Post, "The Daily 202: Floating clemency for Blagojevich, Trump diminishes the gravity of political corruption," 1 June 2018
//The cabdriver confronted the man, who threatened him with a knife.
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Washington Post, "Fairfax County crime report," 3 July 2019
//According to the newspaper, Hollman was arrested after a cabdriver heard gunshots in the area and called police with information on a white SUV and partial license plate.
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Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, "Freed after 25 years for murder: Evidence showed man was 'likely innocent' the whole time," 17 July 2019
//Several cabdrivers were killed in September in the city for refusing to pay protection money to gangs.
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Santiago Pérez, WSJ, "‘A Feudal Regime’: How Gangs Extort Mexico," 19 Dec. 2018
//Six more people would be killed that day in Acapulco, including a cabdriver who was hacked to pieces.
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David Luhnow, WSJ, "Latin America Is the Murder Capital of the World," 20 Sep. 2018
First Known Use of cabdriver
1825, in the meaning defined above
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