taxicab

English

A taxicab in Hong Kong.

Alternative forms

• taxi cab

Etymology

From taxi +‎ cab.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtæk.siˌkæb/

Noun

taxicab (plural taxicabs)

1. A vehicle that passengers hire to take them between locations of their choice, the fare being calculated with a taximeter; a taxi or cab.
   • 1921, Harvey Wickham, “Introducing the Garden of Eden”, in The Clue of the Primrose Petal, New York, N.Y.: Edward J. Clode, page 9:

     So now, stimulated by some further experience with that world which does not care a tinker's damn whether a verb agrees with its subject in number and person or not, she permitted the taxicab to jounce her smile out of all semblance to anything calmly superior and into a very unschoolmarmish grin.

   • 2013, Gijs Mom, The Electric Vehicle:

     After that, the CGV "denumbered" a total of sixty taxicabs, that is, it removed them from the register of stationing taxicabs. The end of the CGV experiment is controversial, but it is certain that the behavior of the drivers (who, as we saw, were not directly salaried by CGV) was an important incentive to the denumbering of cabs: because of the high moyenne, they refused to accept customers for short trips and only accepted orders by the day or half-day.

Derived terms

• taxicab distance
• taxicab geometry
• taxicab number

Verb

taxicab (third-person singular simple present taxicabs, present participle taxicabbing, simple past and past participle taxicabbed)

1. (intransitive) To travel by taxicab.