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Driver vs Hackie - What's the difference?

driver | hackie |

As a proper noun driver

is .

As a noun hackie is

(us) a taxicab driver.

driver

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive .
  • Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive .
  • A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
  • A person who drives some other vehicle.
  • (computing) A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
  • (golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
  • (nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.

    • Derived terms

    * back-seat driver * driver-ant * driver-boom * driverless * driverside * driver's license * driver transistor * driver tube * driver valve * driver-yard * in the driver's seat * pile-driver * screwdriver

    See also

    * chauffeur * conductor * pilot * rider ----

    hackie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) 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", , Bantam Books 1994 (ISBN 0553249592), p. 163:
  • *: If she kicked and screamed I would merely give the hackie another address.