town car

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of town car

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

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town car

The scene: While exploring the ship, Jack and Rose find a Renault town car in the cargo hold.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2017

For a time, a reporter might find herself given scoops, granted interviews, invited to join a Wall Street luminary in his town car, while the rest of the media scrum were stuck outside.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 26, 2017

He built that price into his estimates for some of the day’s activities but said that on its own, a private town car would rent for around $88 an hour.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2016

Blatty, who arrived by town car from his home in Bethesda, Maryland, signed books outside for more than an hour, betraying his 87 years.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2015

Sitting across from Nasreen Baji in the black town car that afternoon, we drove past cotton fields, orange groves, and sugarcane fields.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed