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** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A taxicab driver .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1953 | author=w:Raymond Chandler | title=The Long Goodbye | page=9 | publisher=Penguin | year_published=2010
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1955 | author=w:Rex Stout | chapter=Die Like a Dog | title= 吴语: Three Witnesses (book) | publisher=Bantam Books | year_published=1994 | isbn=0553249592 | page=163
|passage=[...]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.}}
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