Definitions for CAB

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CAB cab

Spelling: [kab]

IPA: /kæb/

Cab is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in CAB (abc).

Definitions for CAB

noun

1. a taxicab.
2. any of various horse-drawn vehicles, as a hansom or brougham, especially one for public hire.
3. the covered or enclosed part of a locomotive, truck, crane, etc., where the operator sits.
4. the glass-enclosed area of an airport control tower in which the controllers are stationed.
5. an ancient Hebrew measure equal to about two quarts.
6. cabbage2 (def 1b).

verb (used without object)

1. to ride in a taxicab or horse-drawn cab:

Origin of CAB

First recorded in 1640-50; short for cabriolet

Examples for CAB

Parisian cab licenses can also be bought and sold for a small fortune.

The cab rattled, jingled, jolted; in fact, the last was quite extraordinary.

I took a cab to a stadium outside the city, bought a ticket, and sat in the concrete bleachers.

(A more upscale version, the cabriolet, or “cab,” was later imported from France).

He took a cab and was driven to the local branch of his favourite temple of chance.

He glanced again at the cab and groaned: "O Lord, I just dassent!"

In a bizarre twist to proceedings, Miss Manners sought to have her £30 cab fare from her Kensington flat to court refunded.

He called a cab for the old man, and saw him started safely off up-town.

Her eyes gleamed in the shadow of the cab straight ahead, immovable.

At a quarter past midnight, all her friends gathered at me and then they went off to party and I went home in a cab.