hackman

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English

Etymology

From hack +‎ -man.

Noun

hackman (plural hackmen)

  1. The driver of a hack (a carriage, cab, or taxi).
    • 1869, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Innocents Abroad, Part 3 of 6:
      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:
      He did not engage the services of any hackman or professional guide.
    • 1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game:
      The hackman had taken him to the house where Jones was lying.