way car
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of way car
An Americanism dating back to 1875–80
Example Sentences
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It’s entwined with the town the way car production is with Detroit.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2024
RV rentals have existed for years, but haven’t caught on with travelers the same way car rentals have.
From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2018
Before the new millennium is many years old, parents may be going to fertility clinics and picking from a list of options the way car buyers order air conditioning and chrome-alloy wheels.
From Time Magazine Archive
The incoming train, an engine with a way car, two flats, and the Bear Dance derrick, slowed up at one end of the wreck while Sinclair and his foreman talked.
From Whispering Smith by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)
We’ve got to make a run for it if we ever get back, and we must have the engine in front of that way car with her pilot headed for the drifts.
From Whispering Smith by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)
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