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hackman en · NOUN

Etymology

From hack + -man.

Meanings

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), The Innocents Abroad, Part 3 of 6:
   • 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:

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