different between hackie vs tackie

English

From hack (“taxicab”) +? -ie.

hackie (plural hackies)

(US, informal) A taxicab driver.
- 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 9:
  There was a taxi stand there and I yanked open the door. ‘He goes first,’ the hackie said, jerking a thumb at the cab ahead.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", Three Witnesses, Bantam Books 1994 ?ISBN, p. 163:
  […] a taxi came along and I flagged it and we got in. I told the driver, "Nine-eighteen West Thirty-fifth," and he started. […] The poor girl didn't know what to do. […] If she kicked and screamed I would merely give the hackie another address.

Unknown. Thought to derive from Dutch or Afrikaans, or may be derived from tacky (“slightly sticky”), which the rubber shoes might seem to be.

tackie (plural tackies)

(South Africa) A canvas shoe with a rubber sole.
(Ireland, Limerick) Another word for trainers or runners.
(South Africa, slang) The tyre of a car or other vehicle.
- The hot rod had fat tackies.

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