hackman
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]hackman (plural hackmen )
- The driver of a hack (a carriage, cab, or taxi).
- 1869, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Innocents Abroad, Part 3 of 6[1] :
- But he makes all his calculations with the nicest precision, and goes darting in and out among a Broadway confusion of busy craft with the easy confidence of the educated hackman.
- 1870, Various, Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 22, August 27, 1870[2] :
- He did not engage the services of any hackman or professional guide.
- 1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game[3] :
- The hackman had taken him to the house where Jones was lying.
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