streetcar
[street-kahr]
- a public vehicle running regularly along certain streets, usually on rails, as a trolley car or trolley bus.
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Origin of streetcar
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Contemporary Examples
Plays like A Streetcar Named Desire and Summer and Smoke dramatized his divided soul.
John Lahr’s Biography Perfectly Captures Tennessee Williams’ Tortured GreatnessWendy Smith
September 25, 2014
“Yeah, me and Streetcar had a lot of fun with that book,” Suffridge was saying.
The po-boy traces its roots back to the New Orleans streetcar labor union strike in 1929.
New Orleans Celebrates Its Favorite Sandwich at the Oak Street Po-Boy FestivalTyler Gillespie
November 26, 2013
From ‘Streetcar’ to Kim Cattrall, Janice Kaplan surveys the shows and actors the Tony Award nominations overlooked.
From hipsters to Mad Men to A Streetcar Named Desire to pompadours and victory rolls, nostalgic revivals are everywhere.
Historical Examples
Well, it's only a drizzle and we can take a streetcar to within a block of the house.
Alice AdamsBooth Tarkington
Coming out on the streetcar she had not had the least dread of meeting Frank.
O Pioneers!Willa Cather
Within half a block of the streetcar line on Malvern an early spring had encouraged plowing of a 200 foot square garden.
"Read the paper on the streetcar," she said as she helped him into his coat.
The Eye of Wilbur MookH. B. Hickey
He might have been a store clerk, or streetcar conductor, or nearly anything.
The Wailing OctopusHarold Leland Goodwin
streetcar
- 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 wireAlso called: trolley car, (esp Brit) tram, tramcar
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