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hackman

(ˈhækˌmæn)
n, pl -men
(Professions) US a taxi driver

Hackman

(ˈhækmən)
n
(Biography) Gene. born 1930, US film actor; his films include The French Connection (1971), Mississippi Burning (1988), Absolute Power (1997), and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
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He calls a hack when you want one; puts you into it; tells the driver whither to take you; receives you like a long-lost child when you return; sends you about your business, does all the quarreling with the hackman himself, and pays him his money out of his own pocket.
She sat with grim determination, upright as a darning-needle stuck in a board, holding on her bundle of umbrella and parasols, and replying with a determination that was enough to strike dismay even into a hackman, wondering to Eva, in each interval, "what upon earth her papa could be thinking of; he couldn't have fallen over, now,--but something must have happened;"--and just as she had begun to work herself into a real distress, he came up, with his usually careless motion, and giving Eva a quarter of the orange he was eating, said,
All this passed in a moment, while trunks were being hustled off, hackman paid, and while a crowd, of all ages and sizes,--men, women, and children,--came running through the galleries, both above and below to see Mas'r come in.
Clare turned round from paying the hackman, there was nobody in view but Mr.
A kind of hackman general seemed to have the whole matter of transportation in his hands.
Shelley recounts the life and career of award-winning actor Gene Hackman (1930-).
CBS announced it has signed a definitive agreement for the sale of its 25-acre CBS Television City property and sound stage operation with Los Angeles-based real estate developer Hackman Capital Partners for $750M.
Thanks to a definitive agreement announced following Monday's Closing Bell on Wall Street, CBS Television City is being acquired by local real estate developer Hackman Capital Partners.
EUSA Pharma, a global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on oncology and rare disease, announced yesterday that it has named Jeffrey S Hackman as the new president of its US' operations.
LOS ANGELES: Hackman Capital Partners, LLC announced the purchase of 1300 64th Street in Emeryville, California.
Hackman, a Saylorsburg native, will oversee business operations.