cab
IPA: kˈæb
noun
- Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
- Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
- Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
- Synonym of taxi
- (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.
- (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
- (rail transport) The station code of Causeway Bay in Hong Kong.
- (skateboarding, snowboarding) A type of aerial spin; a switch frontside rotation.
- (software, Windows) Alternative form of CAB; Clipping of cabinet file.; a compress library archive file. [(rail transport) The station code of Causeway Bay in Hong Kong.]
- Alternative form of Cab [(skateboarding, snowboarding) A type of aerial spin; a switch frontside rotation.]
- (US) Initialism of Civil Aeronautics Board.
- (UK) Initialism of Citizens Advice Bureau.
- (Ireland) Initialism of Criminal Assets Bureau.
- (military, US) Initialism of Combat Action Badge.
- (emergency medicine) Initialism of chest compressions, airway and breathing.
- (psychology) Initialism of Cognition, Affect, and Behavior.
- Initialism of caffeinated alcoholic beverage.
- Abbreviation of Cabernet Sauvignon wine.
verb
- To travel by taxicab.
Examples of "cab" in Sentences
- If you have those numbers you can tell at a glance if a cab is a pirate.
- The other kind of cab is the yellow or "standard" cab - mostly small sedans.
- On top of that crane there used to be a cab, what they call a cab on top of it, about the size of a small fire truck.
- If you hear the term cab within the trick's name, it means the rider came into the trick riding switch and landed regular.
- You also talk a bit about how conceiving of racism simply as having problems driving while black or being unable to get a cab is a dangerous form of forgetting on the part of black people.
- First, my temper was tried by the almost interminable journey, in the noisy and comfortless vehicle which they call a cab, from the river-wharf to the west-end of London, where Marmaduke lives.