Terms vs Hackie - What's the difference?
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(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.