hackie

hackie

English

Etymology

From hack (“taxicab”) +‎ -ie.

Noun

hackie (plural hackies)

1. (US, informal) A taxicab driver.
   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 9:

     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.

   • 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", Three Witnesses, Bantam Books 1994 →ISBN, p. 163:

     […] 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 hackie another address.