streetcar
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noun
a public vehicle running regularly along certain streets, usually on rails, as a trolley car or trolley bus.
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| (US), (Canadian) trolley car, tram, Also called: tramcar an electrically driven public transport vehicle that runs on rails let into the surface of the road, power usually being taken from an overhead wire | |
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Streetcar
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Example sentences
Officials are even studying a project to build a streetcar system.
He cut off ties with his parents and took a series of menial jobs while pursuing his hobby of collecting streetcar transfers.
Drinking-house shinplasters and five-cent streetcar tickets served as small change.
They had taken a streetcar and filled it with dynamite and rolled it down the hill near our house.
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