cab

noun

1. 1

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

2. 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. 3

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

4. 4

   historicalAny 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.”

5. 5

   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

   I whistled for a cab, and when it came near / The license plate said "Fresh", and it had dice in the mirror / If anything, I could say that this cab was rare / But I thought "Nah, forget it, yo home to Bel-Air!"

verb

1. 1

   To travel by taxicab.

noun

1. 1

   historicalA 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 […]

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

   Variant of cabinet fileClipping of cabinet file (“a compressed library archive file”).

noun

1. 1

   Variant of cabernet sauvignoninformalShort for cabernet sauvignon

noun

1. 1

   Variant of CabAlternative form of Cab.

Forms

plural

cabs

past tense

cabbed

past participle

cabbed

present participle

cabbing

third person singular

cabs