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From cab +‎ -man.

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cabman (plural cabmen)

  1. The driver of a hackney cab.
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 22, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
      At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.
  2. The driver of a taxi.

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