Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An ancient Hebrew unit of measure equal to about 2 liters (2.1 quarts).
  • noun A taxicab.
  • noun The covered compartment of a heavy vehicle or machine, such as a truck or locomotive, in which the operator or driver sits.
  • noun A one-horse vehicle for public hire.
  • intransitive verb To ride or travel in a taxicab.
  • intransitive verb To drive a taxicab.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See capel.
  • noun A hackney carriage with either two or four wheels, drawn by one horse; a cabriolet.
  • noun The hooded or covered part of a locomotive, which protects the engineer and fireman from the weather.
  • To appropriate dishonestly and on the sly; crib; purloin.
  • To pass over in a cab: as, to cab the distance: often used with an indefinite it: as, I'll cab it to Whitehall.
  • noun Any sticky substance.
  • noun A translation (usually literal) of a classical or other work in a foreign language, surreptitiously used by school-boys and students in preparing their lessons or recitations; a crib.
  • noun A small number of persons secretly united in the performance of some undertaking.
  • noun A Hebrew measure of capacity, for both dry and liquid matter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.
  • noun A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
  • noun See Hansom.
  • noun The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, held by some to have been about 1.4 liters, by others about 2.4 liters.
  • noun US A taxi; a taxicab.
  • noun Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
  • noun Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood
  • noun a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits
  • noun a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
  • verb ride in a taxicab

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Hebrew qab.]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Short for cabriolet.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Hebrew קב (káv).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Clipping of cabriolet

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Examples

  • If you hear the term cab within the trick's name, it means the rider came into the trick riding switch and landed regular.

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories 2009

  • If you hear the term cab within the trick's name, it means the rider came into the trick riding switch and landed regular.

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories 2009

  • If you hear the term cab within the trick's name, it means the rider came into the trick riding switch and landed regular.

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories 2009

  • On top of that crane there used to be a cab, what they call a cab on top of it, about the size of a small fire truck.

    CNN Transcript May 30, 2008 2008

  • If you have those numbers you can tell at a glance if a cab is a pirate.

    Living in D.F. 2005

  • You also talk a bit about how conceiving of racism simply as having problems driving while black or being unable to get a cab is a dangerous form of forgetting on the part of black people.

    Getting Over Race 2004

  • You also talk a bit about how conceiving of racism simply as having problems driving while black or being unable to get a cab is a dangerous form of forgetting on the part of black people.

    Getting Over Race 2004

  • First, my temper was tried by the almost interminable journey, in the noisy and comfortless vehicle which they call a cab, from the river-wharf to the west-end of London, where Marmaduke lives.

    Little Novels Wilkie Collins 1856

  • The other kind of cab is the yellow or "standard" cab - mostly small sedans.

    Tijuana, a taste of Mexico 2005

  • The other kind of cab is the yellow or "standard" cab - mostly small sedans.

    Tijuana, a taste of Mexico 2005

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  • "Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair."

    - George Burns.

    December 8, 2008