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English
Etymology
taxi + man
Noun
taximan (plural taximen)
- A male taxi driver.
1950 May, Patrick B. Whitehouse, “A Northern Ireland Miscellany, 1949”, in Railway Magazine, page 342:As I very much wanted to travel on the line, it unfortunately was necessary to add considerably to the finances of a very genial Irish taximan, who thought me quite mad when I directed him to the station at Ballycastle, as this could only take me back once again to Ballymoney.
French
Etymology
From taxi + -man.
Pronunciation
Noun
taximan m (plural taximans, feminine taxiwoman)
- (Belgium, Switzerland, Africa) (male) taxi driver