单词 | hackie |
释义 | hackien. U.S. colloquial (now chiefly historical). Originally: (a name for) a driver of a hackney carriage. In later use: a taxi-driver. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by vehicles plying for hire > [noun] > driving or hiring of cabs > driver of hired cab > driver of taxi-cab hackie1887 taxi cabbie1907 taxi driver1907 taxi man1908 1887 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 16 Jan. 1/6 ‘What's the matter with keeping my grave green, young woman?’ replied hacky. 1899 A. C. Gunter M.S. Bradford Special 31 Where shall I tell hacky to drive? 1937 Daily Express 10 Mar. 6/7 ‘Hackie’ is taxi-driver. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues viii. 114 Weaving..like an expert hackie in heavy traffic. 1993 F. Conroy Body & Soul 157 How am I going to find an honest hackie? I'd get robbed, and the way they drive, it would ruin the car. 2014 E. F. Lindenblatt Stop at Red Apple xviii. 60 Their hackie, having brought them this far safely, seemed to know a little about driving. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1887 |
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