"cab off the rank" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Figurative reference to cabs at a taxi rank, which wait in a line for passengers, the frontmost cab departing first.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cabs off the rank",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "cabs off the rank"
      },
      "expansion": "cab off the rank (plural cabs off the rank)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Karen Welberry, Tanya Dalziell, Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave, page 34",
          "text": "The Boys Next Door […] were as likely a prospect as the Australian new wave was going to throw up, could have been and in many ways were the next cab off the rank after the Saints and Radio Birdman, Australia's twin prophets of punk.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Antonia Magee, Living Thin, page 128",
          "text": "Once again I left Jason's office in high spirits. First cab off the rank was to pay off the LAND card and I intended to do it straightaway, like ripping off a band-aid.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something fitting or occurring at a specified point in a series."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia) Something fitting or occurring at a specified point in a series."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "cab-rank rule"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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  ],
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}

{
  "etymology_text": "Figurative reference to cabs at a taxi rank, which wait in a line for passengers, the frontmost cab departing first.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cabs off the rank",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cabs off the rank"
      },
      "expansion": "cab off the rank (plural cabs off the rank)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "cab-rank rule"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Karen Welberry, Tanya Dalziell, Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave, page 34",
          "text": "The Boys Next Door […] were as likely a prospect as the Australian new wave was going to throw up, could have been and in many ways were the next cab off the rank after the Saints and Radio Birdman, Australia's twin prophets of punk.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Antonia Magee, Living Thin, page 128",
          "text": "Once again I left Jason's office in high spirits. First cab off the rank was to pay off the LAND card and I intended to do it straightaway, like ripping off a band-aid.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something fitting or occurring at a specified point in a series."
      ],
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        "(Australia) Something fitting or occurring at a specified point in a series."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
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}