hackie

A taxicab driver.

Noun

  1. A taxicab driver.
    • 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. - 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 9:
    • […]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...

Origin

From hack (“taxicab”) + -ie.

Forms

hackies