to hail
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3.8
- verb
- /heɪl/
:
hacer señas a
- Can I hail you a cab?
- hail a cab
So, like, they not hail in, like, Mexico.
- So, like, they not hail in, like, Mexico.
- I'll go build a whatever, a car hailing app.
- So what do we have or what do we know about robo taxis and the goal of some of the ride hailing companies?
- But what it's saying is, it's saying is if you see the hailing sign from a fellow Mason who's in trouble, they have a sign that they can give.
- It seems our movements have been detected and we are being hailed in true Klingon fashion.
- But we want to go vertical and have, you know, have be in ride hailing.
Examples
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Could you hail me a cab, please?
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I try to hail a cab, but all of them are taken, mostly by businessmen.
Fiction book (1995) -
We gotta hail a cab.
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- I'll hail us a cab.
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When we were outside, she hailed a taxi, and we went to her apartment.
Fiction book (1993) -
As planned, Barry stepped out in front of the vehicle and hailed it as it slowed down.
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Keaton looks to his right and sees Hockney trying to hail a cab.
Fiction book (1996) -
"I stepped to the curb, hailed a cab, and told the driver, 'Eighty-second and Second.'
Fiction book (1994) -
The "priest," unfazed, dusts himself off as he hails a cab with a cheerful, serious determination.
Fiction book (1992) -
Could you hail me a cab, please?
Synonyms
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1.0
To make a loud sound to get attention
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4.0
Move your hand or head to tell someone to come closer
To call or wave for a taxi to stop for you
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Archaic
Being friendly and cheerful when meeting people, sometimes too familiar
How Urgent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hail (verb, call a vehicle) grew from the idea of calling out to get attention, like a loud greeting, so to hail a taxi is simply to call to the driver for it to stop.