Reverse Dictionary: COACH

ADJECTIVES
► VECTARIOUS belonging to a coach, wagon, or any carriage → 1656

NOUNS
► BANGY a buggy without any top → 1967 Amer. dial.
► BASKET BUGGY ► BASKET CARRIAGE ► BASKET PHAETON ► BASKET WAGON a horse-drawn vehicle with a wicker body → 1863 Amer. dial.
► BUTTER FLAP a trap or light carriage → M19 rhyming sl.
► CAB a cabriolet; a public carriage → 1820s colloq.
► HACK a hackney coach or carriage; a vehicle plying for hire → 1704
► HITCH a horse and carriage → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► IMPUDENT STEALING ‘cutting out the backs of coaches and robbing the seats’ → 1796 sl. (Bk.)
► JARVEY ► JARVIE ► JARVY a hackney coach → 1819 obs.
► JINGLE a hackney carriage → 1860 Irish sl.
► MONKEY-BOARD the conductor’s or the footman’s place on an old-style omnibus or on a carriage → 1842 colloq.
► QUEER ROTAN a run-down coach → E19 UK criminals’ sl.
► QUITCH a coach → a1693 obs.
► RATTLER a coach → 1630 UK criminals’ sl.
► UNICORN a coach drawn by three horses, two abreast and one in the lead → 1785 UK criminals’ sl.
► WAGONING coach-driving → M19 sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► CAB a cabman → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CABBIE ► CABBY a cab-driver; now, spec., a taxi-driver → 1859 colloq.
► CABMAN the driver of a public hired cab → 1850
► CAD 1. an unbooked passenger whom the driver of a coach took up for his own profit on the way → 1790 obs.
2. a coachman’s assistant;  the person who takes the fare or attends to the passengers of a coach → 1833 obs. or hist.
► CAD-BOY a coachman’s assistant → L18 sl.
► CADCATCHER an unbooked passenger in a coach, whose fare was pocketed by the driver → 1955 (Bk.)
► CADGER a person in a service industry, cab-driver, a waiter, cab-driver, who solicits for tips → L19 sl.
► ESSEDARTUS a coachman → E18 sl.
► GARDENER an insulting term for a second-rate, incompetent coachman → 1859 sl.
► GURRAWAUN a coachman → 1864 Anglo-Indian obs.
► HACKNEY-COACHMAN the driver of a hackney-coach (a four-wheeled coach, drawn by two hoses, and seated for six persons) → c1610
► HELL-DRIVER a coachman → 1699 sl. obs.
► IMPUDENT STEALER a person who cuts out the back of a coach and takes things out of it → c1700 UK criminals’ sl.
► IN an inside passenger on a coach → 1844 obs.
► JACK-BOY a postilion; one who rides one of a carriage’s leading horses rather than riding on the box → c1810 sl.
► JARVEY ► JARVIE ► JARVY a hackney-coachman → 1812 colloq.
► JARVIS a hackney coachman → 1811 sl.
► JEHU a coachman; a driver → 1694 humorous usage
► MAFOO a coachman → 1910 Anglo-Chinese (Bk.)
► MR. SWITCH a coachman → E18 sl.
► OUTSIDE a passenger who rides on top of a coach → L18 sl.
► PICKLE-JAR a coachman in yellow → 1850 sl.
► RAG-TACKER a coach-trimmer → c1820 sl.
► SHORT-ONE in coaching: a passenger not on the waybill → c1830
► WAP-JOHN a gentleman’s coachman → 1826 sl. obs.

VERBS
► BE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE HEDGE ► FALL ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE HEDGE to be thrown or fall from a coach → c1800 sl.
► CAB IT to travel by cab → E19 sl.
► FLUTTER THE RIBBANDS OF A COACH to drive a coach → 1864 sl.
► JARVEY to act the ‘jarvey’; to drive a carriage → 1826
► JEHU to drive a horse-drawn vehicle → 1822