Hackman

Origin

hack + man

Full definition of hackman

Noun

1. The driver of a hack
• 1869, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Innocents Abroad, Part 3 of 6 Chapter , But he makes all his calculations with the nicest precision, and goes darting in and out among a Broadway confusion of busy craft with the easy confidence of the educated hackman.
• 1870, Various, Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 22, August 27, 1870 Chapter , He did not engage the services of any hackman or professional guide.
• 1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game Chapter , The hackman had taken him to the house where Jones was lying.