streetcar
a public vehicle running regularly along certain streets, usually on rails, as a trolley car or trolley bus.
Origin of streetcar
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How to use streetcar in a sentence
A passenger who stands on a platform or on the steps of a street car, when there is room inside, assumes all the risks himself.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesThe girls announced that they should ride back, and they walked over and took a Third Street car.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonA street car landed him within two blocks of the address on the tag, and Bud walked through thickening fog and dusk to the place.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerA street car slipped past, bobbing down the track like a duck sailing over ripples.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerKeeping sharp lookout for skidding cars and unexpected pedestrians and street-car crossings and the like fully occupied Bud.
Cabin Fever | B. M. Bower
British Dictionary definitions for streetcar
/ (ˈstriːtˌkɑː) /
US and Canadian an electrically driven public transport vehicle that runs on rails let into the surface of the road, power usually being taken from an overhead wire: Also called: trolley car, (esp Brit) tram, tramcar
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