1. A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
   "They hailed a cab to take them to the airport";
   - hack [N. Amer], taxi, taxicab
    
2. A compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits
   "The truck driver climbed into the cab and started the engine"
    
3. Small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood
   "They toured the city in a romantic horse-drawn cab";
   - cabriolet

1. Ride in a taxicab
   "We cabbed to the airport";
   - taxi

Derived forms: cabs, cabbing, cabbed

Type of: auto [informal], autocar [archaic], automobile [N. Amer], car, carriage, compartment, equipage, motor [Brit, informal], motorcar, ride, rig, wheel [informal], whip [US, informal]

Part of: automotive vehicle, fleet, motor vehicle

Encyclopedia: Cab