noun
- a driver of a hack (a taxi or hired carriage)
Usage: chiefly historical or informal; North American
Examples
- The hackman waited outside the hotel for passengers.
- In the early 1900s, hackmen were a common sight on city streets.
- He worked as a hackman for twenty years before retiring.
- The hackman knew every street in the city by heart.
- She hailed a hackman to take her to the train station.