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English
Etymology
From hack (“taxicab”) + -ie.
Noun
hackie (plural hackies)
- (US, informal) A taxicab driver.
1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 9:There was a taxi stand there and I yanked open the door. ‘He goes first,’ the hackie said, jerking a thumb at the cab ahead.
1955, Rex Stout, “Die Like a Dog”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam Books, published 1994, →ISBN, page 163:[…] a taxi came along and I flagged it and we got in. I told the driver, "Nine-eighteen West Thirty-fifth," and he started. […] The poor girl didn't know what to do. […] If she kicked and screamed I would merely give the hackie another address.