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grip cars

grip cars is the plural of grip car.

Meaning of grip 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

Questions about grip cars

What is grip cars the plural of?
Grip cars is the plural of grip car.

Words near grip cars in the dictionary

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

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