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grip car

grip car noun: a streetcar, especially a cable car.

Noun

grip car (plural grip cars)

  1. (US, dated) A streetcar, especially a cable car.
    • After dining Sam got on a grip car of the Wabash Avenue Cable, sitting on the front seat and letting the panorama of the town roll up to him.1916, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 3, in Windy McPherson's Son, John Lane Company, New York, →OCLC
    • Those were the days of the cable cars and we all jumped on a grip-car and set off visiting gaily.1953, Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, As I Remember, Harper, →OCLC, page 81

Forms of grip car

pluralgrip cars
alternative formgrip-car

Questions about grip car

What does grip car mean?
Grip car means a streetcar, especially a cable car.
What part of speech is grip car?
Grip car is a noun.
What is the plural of grip car?
The plural of grip car is grip cars.

Words near grip car in the dictionary

  1. griotic
  2. griots
  3. griotte
  4. griottes
  5. grip
  6. grip car
  7. grip cars
  8. grip case
  9. grip cases
  10. grip grain
  11. grip off

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