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

“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.

From Los Angeles Times

“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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

The second-most-well-known left-leaning provocateur running for president as an independent candidate at the moment is professor and activist Cornel West, who was once seen by your correspondent and several acquaintances driving, by himself, on the New Jersey Turnpike in a gigantic black vintage Lincoln Town Car–style vehicle so enormous and perfectly suited to the aesthetic of his self-styling as a fiery old-school rabble-rouser/prophet that it made everyone present spontaneously laugh out loud.

From Slate