taximan

[ tak-see-muhn ]

noun

, Chiefly British.

, plural tax·i·men.

1. a taxi driver.

Word History and Origins

Origin of taximan¹

First recorded in 1920–25; taxi + -man

Example Sentences

And I used to think the old cabbies could drive, but their job was child's play to the taximan's!

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“Didn’t you ask a taximan at the hospital how much it would cost to go there?”

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"It's a dead-end," the taximan said in disgust, turning the cab around.

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The man was a stranger to the hall-porter, and he was not one of the taximen who habitually stood upon the neighboring rank; no one seemed to have noticed the number of the cab.

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There he found Sowerby, very red faced and humid, and a taximan who sat stolidly surveying the Embankment from the window.

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