Examples of use of hail a cab
1. He then stole 10 euros from the driver and got off the bus but was caught by police as he tried to hail a cab.
2. Scott Poll was with two friends as they tried to hail a cab after a night out, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.
3. We hail a cab and point it in the direction of the hills outside the city, the lowest foothills of the distant Himalayas.
4. You can’t hail a cab in London without the driver regaling you with his plans to retire to a villa in Benidorm or Tenerife.
5. Chuck Hagel (Neb.). Obama was asked whether he is "authentically black," and said he proved his racial bona fides whenever he tried to hail a cab in New York.