jitney
noun
a small bus or car following a regular route along which it picks up and discharges passengers, originally charging each passenger five cents.
jitneys
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pluralof jitney.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I couldn’t agree more with Brian Broome’s Nov. 9 Tuesday Opinion column, “So long, jitneys — and farewell to our connective tissue.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2021
A few of the more pretentious ones pass in their own cars, or in jitneys, or upon busses.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2019
Those agents, who drive pick-up trucks, are different than the parking enforcement agents that ticket vehicles for meter violations and other offenses, who drive small vehicles sometimes called jitneys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2018
Many fly aerial jitneys, such as war-surplus C-46s converted from U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
When I said that I wanted to push on to Tshikapa at once, Moody said, "We will leave at five in the morning in one of the jitneys and be in Tshikapa tomorrow night."
From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
