Dictionary Entry
A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver.
Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “taxi”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →(continuous with the roof of 94), and past the chimney stacks, into
the top storey of 94, and so on down to the street, where a taxi was
waiting to convey her to the Lilacs.
Read full poem →the kerb when you are trying to decide whether or not you want
a taxi, and by the time we reached the hotel I had puked once and
Betsy had puked twice.
Read full poem →bitter, hawk-nosed Southerner from Yale, who came up to college
one week-end only to find his date had eloped with a taxi-driver the
Read full poem →Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits
Like a taxi throbbing waiting,
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,