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cab

noun
/kæb/

Etymology

Clipping of Caballero. From Steve Caballero, professional skateboarder. From Spanish Caballero.

  1. derived from קב

Definitions

  1. A compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.

  2. A similar compartment in other vehicles.

    • Dad looked up to catch sight of the man in the crane’s cab. He knew that DEVILISH smirk anywhere. It was Fingers.

  3. A shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.

  4. ›+ 18 more definitions

    1. Any of several two- or four-wheeled carriages

      Any of several two- or four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.

      • “There will soon be very few hansom cabs left,” said Mrs. Elliot. “And four-wheeled cabs—I assure you even at Oxford it’s almost impossible to get a four-wheeled cab.”

    2. Synonym of taxi, a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys.

      • a cab ride
      • to take a cab
      • And I'm phoning a cab / 'Cause my stomach feels small / There's a taste in my mouth / And it's no taste at all

    3. To travel by taxicab.

    4. A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a…

      A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.

      • […] in the famine of Samaria […] the fourth part of a cab of pigeon's dung was sold for five pieces of silver […]

    5. An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.

    6. Clipping of cabinet file (“a compressed library archive file”).

    7. Short for cabernet sauvignon

    8. Alternative form of Cab.

    9. Initialism of Civil Aeronautics Board.

    10. Initialism of Citizens Advice Bureau.

    11. Initialism of Criminal Assets Bureau.

    12. Initialism of Combat Action Badge.

    13. The station code of Causeway Bay in Hong Kong.

    14. Initialism of chest compressions, airway and breathing.

    15. Initialism of Cognition, Affect, and Behavior.

    16. Initialism of caffeinated alcoholic beverage.

    17. Abbreviation of Cabernet Sauvignon wine.

      • “So you're drinking some Cabs then, right?” she asked. ¶ I told her that indeed I was. […] Cabernet Sauvignon grows just about anywhere; nearly every wine-growing country has its Cab.

    18. A type of aerial spin

      A type of aerial spin; a switch frontside rotation.

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Derived

aerocab, aircab, autocab, bike cab, cabber, cabbie, cabby, cab driver, cabdriver, cabdriving, cab forward, cabless, cabman, cab off the rank, cabover, cabowner, cab rank, cab-rank rule, cab sav, cab signal, cab signalling, cab signaling, cabstand, cabulance, cab unit, cabwoman, call a cab, centercab, day cab, double cab, dual cab, extended cab, gypsy cab, gyrocab, hack cab, hackney cab, helicab, king cab, minicab, motorcab · +7 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cab. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA