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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Because cabdrivers refused to go there, residents relied for decades on private jitneys to get around — cars that followed set routes through the community.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 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 pickup 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
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
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
