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taxi

Definition

  • noun: a car that carries passengers to a place for an amount of money that is based on the distance traveled
  • noun: a similarly operated boat or aircraft
  • verb: to move on wheels along the ground
  • verb: to go at low speed along the surface of the ground or water
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: taxicab

Examples

  • She went outside and 'hailed a taxi'. [=waved or called for a taxi to pull over and stop]

  • The pilot 'taxied' the plane out to the runway.

  • We caught/took/got a 'taxi' to the restaurant.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) We take you to war, okay? AIex, you there? Hey! He's not there. , man. MAMA: She got a pIace of her own. She don't teII me where. One night, I foIIow her in a taxi. She goes to a fancy house in Coconut Grove. -Where'd she get the money? -You! You were giving her the money! (..)
    1983 Scarface
  • (..) We got an hour. You hungry? No, but I'm bored. WeII, that figures. Check it out, Manny, okay? And pay the guy. And you take a taxi. Meet me at the track, okay? Good doing business with you. I wouIdn't buy the car if you didn't Iike it. PIanning on driving the girIs crazy, (..)
    1983 Scarface