The word 'cabbie' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a colloquial term for a taxi driver. Example: The cabbie drove us through the busy city streets, expertly navigating through traffic and getting us to our destination on time.
abcnews.go.com Cabbie Karma London cabbies might have the Knowledge, but do they have the Integrity to match?
Dr Maguire and her team have now turned their attention to how cabbies learn the Knowledge.The prodigious geographical knowledge of the average cabbie is, indeed, savant-like.
On our first day here, the cabbie showed us Nariman Point, the Hanging Gardens, the Taj and the Gateway of India – then drove us over to Antilia, reportedly the most expensive home in the world.
Hearing that I'd flown in especially to watch England lose the Ashes, my cabbie gave me a long lecture on why Phil Hughes should be in the Australia team for Steve Smith, romanticised about Mark Waugh ("the prettiest bat I've ever seen," he swooned), then mentioned in passing that his uncle had batted for England in the 1920s and 30s.
He bagged an Oscar nomination for his turn as an imperilled cabbie in the Tom Cruise thriller Collateral and went on to win the best actor prize for his full-throttle impersonation of Ray Charles in the 2004 biopic by director Taylor Hackford.
Compared with the rigorous tests you have to go through in London, Wasim says it's pretty simple to become a Mumbai cabbie.
The staff tending the deep-fat fryers and counters are as eager as any London cabbie to tell you about the football and snooker players and soap-opera stars who have nipped in for a coffee or a pee.
No Martian in "Mars Attacks" says "Nice planet: we'll take it", and neither Smith nor Jones, wielding a space-zapper almost bigger than himself, admits that he has no idea how to use it.Luc Besson's "The Fifth Element", with Bruce Willis as a flying cabbie in the New York city of tomorrow, does not begin as a parody.
Petronio, a cabbie, jokes that perhaps it would have been better off had the Dutch, who ruled the region in 1630-54, not been chased out by the Portuguese.
If a woman ever tricked him into paying a child support for a kid that wasn't biologically his, the cabbie says, he would take her to court to demand restitution.We all agree that that sounds fair.
IT WOULD be disconcerting at any time to hear a Cairo cabbie say "Good for Israel!" It is doubly odd in a week when Israeli troops have shot scores of his fellow-Arabs dead.
