cable car
Americannoun
noun
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a cabin suspended from and moved by an overhead cable in a mountain area
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a cableway
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a passenger car on a cable railway
Etymology
Origin of cable car
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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San Francisco is full of postcard attractions including cable cars, Fisherman’s Wharf and the Transamerica Pyramid.
A more convenient cable car to and from the entrance of Cortina has not been completed.
From Barron's
Director Mohammed Ali Naqvi's pacey documentary tells the real life story of the rescue of Pakistani schoolboys stranded hundreds of feet above a Himalayan valley in a rusting cable car when wires snap.
From Barron's
"Hanging by a Wire" tells the story of the nail-biting race to save schoolboys dangling from a stranded cable car in the Himalayan foothills.
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Above, in the stunningly beautiful Swiss Alps, cable cars went on sliding up the mountain carrying tourists to ski.
From BBC
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