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noun
1.
a small bus or car following a regular route along which it picks up and discharges passengers, originally charging each passenger five cents.
2.
Older Slang. a nickel; five-cent piece.
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
3.
to carry or ride in a jitney.
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Origin:
1900–05, Americanism; of obscure origin; French jeton jetton is a phonetically implausible source
1900–05, Americanism; of obscure origin; French jeton jetton is a phonetically implausible source
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Example Sentences
- Jitney stops on corner or in front of house but no need to be on a shuttle if you care to take a short walk to trackside.
- There were odd tales of two trains and a jitney bus gone awry.
- Transit train station for employee parking and offering jitney service to bring the workers downtown.
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Word Origin & History
jitney
"bus which carries passengers for a fare," 1914, Amer.Eng., from gitney, St. Louis slang for "a nickel" (1903), perhaps because the buses' fare was a nickel, a coin formerly called a gitney, perhaps from Fr. jeton "coin-sized metal disk, slug, counter," from O.Fr. jeter "to calculate," lit. "to throw."
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