hackman

The driver of a hack (a carriage, cab, or taxi).

Noun

  1. The driver of a hack (a carriage, cab, or taxi).
    • But he makes all his calculations with the nicest precision, and goes darting in and out among a Broadway confusion of busy craft with the easy confidence of the educated hackman. - 1869, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens),...
    • He did not engage the services of any hackman or professional guide. - 1870, Various, Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 22, August 27, 1870:
    • The hackman had taken him to the house where Jones was lying. - 1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game:

Origin

From hack + -man.

Forms

hackmen