streetcars

Noun

streetcar (plural streetcars)

1. (Canada, US) A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car but sometimes multiple cars attached together, operating on city streets; a trolley car.
   • Here, outside, in the light and the shade and the heat, there was a great tinkling of the bells of innumerable streetcars, and a constant strolling and shuffling and rustling of many pedestrians, a large proportion of whom were young women in Pompadour-looking dresses.1878, Henry James, An International Episode

   Synonyms:

   tram