cabdriver
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cabdriver
Example Sentences
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“You got some of that New York City token?” the cabdriver asked.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026
“I just want us to go back to being unknown,” Petersen, the cabdriver, said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026
He is a former cabdriver and music instructor who served in the New York judiciary for more than 15 years before presiding over Trump’s bench trial.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024
Young Bobby took up the electric guitar as a teenager after the family moved to Dayton, Ohio, where he also began playing in local country bands and working as a cabdriver.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2023
If some celebrity endorses a brand of dog food, or some cabdriver disapproves of the mayor’s handling of a dilemma, there’s obviously no reason to accord statistical significance to these personal expressions.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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