hackie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

American usage; Informal

"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."
"[…]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."

From hack (“taxicab”) + -ie.

hackies (plural)

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