Definition of cab

What does the word cab mean?

• part of speech: noun, intransitive verb

  (Go in a) one-horsed hackney carriage with two or four wheels, esp. the hansom; driver\'s shelter on locomotive; cabman, driver of c.; c.-rank, row of cc. on cabstand, where cc. are authorized to wait; c.-runner, -tout, men earning pay by fetching, or unloading luggage from, cc. Hence cabless a.

• part of speech: noun, intransitive verb

  (slang). (Use secretly in preparing lessons) a translation, crib. [French]