cab
noun /kæb/
/kæb/
- a taxi
enlarge image- I'll call you a cab.
- Let's take a cab.
- The cab pulled up and they got out.
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorryb2- I came by cab.
- I left my umbrella in the back of the cab.
- I ordered a cab to take him home.
- I tried to hail a cab but none of them would stop.
- Outside, a cab was waiting.
- We couldn't find a cab anywhere near.
- We decided to share a cab.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- taxi
- hackney
- hansom
- …
- go by
- take
- call (somebody)
- …
- draw up
- pull up
- stop
- …
- driver
- rank
- fare
- …
- by cab
- in a/the cab
- the back of a cab
- the place where the driver sits in a bus, train or lorryTopics Transport by bus and trainc1, Transport by car or lorryc1
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Word Originearly 19th cent.: abbreviation of cabriolet.