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cab

1  [kab] noun, verb, cabbed, cab⋅bing.
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–noun
1. a taxicab.
2. any of various horse-drawn vehicles, as a hansom or brougham, esp. 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.
–verb (used without object)
5. to ride in a taxicab or horse-drawn cab: They cabbed to the theater.
Origin:
1640–50; short for cabriolet

Synonyms:
1, 2. hack, hackney, jitney.
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cab

2  [kab]
–noun
an ancient Hebrew measure equal to about two quarts.
Also, kab.

Origin:
1525–35; < Heb qabh

cab

3  [kab]
–noun Chiefly British.
cabbage 2 (def. 1b).

CAB

 
Civil Aeronautics Board.
Also, C.A.B.

cab⋅bage

2  [kab-ij] noun, verb, -baged, -bag⋅ing.
–noun
1. Chiefly British.
a. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim.
b. Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
2. to steal; pilfer: He cabbaged whole yards of cloth.
Origin:
1615–25; earlier carbage shred, piece of cloth, appar. var. of garbage wheat straw chopped small (obs. sense)
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cab 1   (kāb)   
n.  

  1. A taxicab.

  2. The covered compartment of a heavy vehicle or machine, such as a truck or locomotive, in which the operator or driver sits.

  3. A one-horse vehicle for public hire.

intr.v.   cabbed, cab·bing, cabs

  1. To ride or travel in a taxicab: We cabbed to the opera.

  2. To drive a taxicab: a student who cabbed for a living.


[Short for cabriolet.]
cab 2 also kab   (kāb)   
n.  An ancient Hebrew unit of measure equal to about 2 liters (2.1 quarts).

[Hebrew qab.]
CAB  
abbr.  Civil Aeronautics Board
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Slang Dictionary
cabbage

  1. n.
    money. (Originally underworld. See also green; spinach.) : How much cabbage you want for this heater?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

cab 
1826, shortening of cabriolet (1763) "light, horse-drawn carriage," Fr. dim. of cabrioler "leap, caper," from It. capriolare "jump in the air," from L. capreolus "wild goat." The carriages had springy suspensions. Extended to hansoms and other types of carriages; applied to public horse carriages (of automobiles from 1899), then extended to similar parts of locomotives (1859). Cabby is from 1859 (see taxi).

cabbage 
c.1440, from M.Fr. caboche "head" (in the Channel Islands, "cabbage"), from O.Fr. caboce "head," from L. caput "head" (see head). Introduced to Canada 1541 by Jacques Cartier on his third voyage. First written record of it in U.S. is 1669. The decline of "ch" to "j" in the unaccented final syllable parallels the common pronunciation of spinach, sandwich, Greenwich, etc.
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Bible Dictionary

Cab

hollow (R.V., "kab"), occurs only in 2 Kings 6:25; a dry measure, the sixth part of a seah, and the eighteenth part of an ephah, equal to about two English quarts.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
cab
cabernet
CAB

  1. Civil Aeronautics Board

  2. coronary artery bypass

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Encyclopedia

cab

chauffeur-driven automobile available for hire to carry passengers between any two points within a city or its suburbs for a fare determined by a meter or zone system or a flat rate. The taxicab is named after the taximeter, an instrument invented by Wilhelm Bruhn in 1891 that automatically recorded the distance traveled and/or the time consumed, thus enabling the fare to be accurately measured. The term cab derives from the cabriolet, a two-wheeled, one-horse carriage often let out for hire

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