jitneys
- plural of jitney.
Example Sentences
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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
Simultaneously serving as their kids’ drill masters, coaches, instructors, one-on-one opponents, hype men, financiers, advisers, protectors, bouncers, dietitians, jitneys, critics, vision boards, sponsors, and parents.
From Slate ● May 5, 2017
In other countries, mini-buses that occupy a gray world between public and private transportation go by many names: jitneys, matatus, "informal" transit.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2015
Similar services, sometimes called jitneys, have operated in San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Houston.
From Washington Post
But, learning that there was a movie in a near-by village, they secured two jitneys and gave a party for the inmates.
From Hints to Pilgrims by Brooks, Charles Stephen
