taxicab

[ tak-see-kab ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of taxicab¹

First recorded in 1905–10; taxi(meter) + cab ¹

Example Sentences

Officers and Seattle Fire Department personnel found a taxicab and truck significantly damaged at the intersection, police said.

From Seattle Times

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”.

From BBC

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From New York Times

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.

From Reuters

Related Words

• carriage
• taxi