town car

noun

1. an automobile having an enclosed rear seat separated by a glass partition from the open driver's seat.

Word History and Origins

Origin of town car¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

“I was writing about magazine editors who had 24-hour town car service, limousines that would drive them around to their appointments, wait outside at the sidewalk while they ate a giant lunch at the Four Seasons restaurant, and it all got expensed back to Condé Nast,” he says.

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“I actually hired a car, so I could write while coming down here,” he confesses, adding the car is a Lincoln Town Car, an unintended parallel to Haller’s preferred mode of transportation.

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With that, I let Connelly get back to his Town Car and finishing that Lincoln Lawyer book.

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Because he was so famous and so wealthy, he knew there was a good chance the woman he called would say yes, and having squired her around Manhattan in a big Town Car and taken her to see a movie that just opened or Elton John at Madison Square Garden, one thing was likely to lead to another, and…

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The scene ends with the trio hopping into a ’80s-era black limo, which someone on set claims is the same Lincoln town car featured in “Die Hard” and is driven by Charles’s old chauffeur from his “Brazzos” days.

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