cab
/kæb/ noun A2- A compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
- A similar compartment in other vehicles.
- A shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
- Any of several two- or four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
- Synonym of taxi, a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys. · a cab ride· to take a cab
Plural cabs
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“I’ve a cab at the door, and it won’t take us twenty minutes to Victoria.
Leaning forward in the cab, he listened intently to MacDonald’s short sketch of the problem which awaited us in Sussex.
“Surely there is not a moment to be lost,” I cried, “shall I go and order you a cab?”
“You did not come here in a cab?” asked Sherlock Holmes.
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