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town car

noun

  1. an automobile having an enclosed rear seat separated by a glass partition from the open driver's seat.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of town car1

First recorded in 1915–20

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Example Sentences

The title poem rushes forward with a gorgeous hydraulic motion, as if Proust had been sped up and turned into a Town Car.

I walked along the shining hoods until I came to a shabby town car at the tail of the queue.

He stepped quietly into a town car and was soon lost in midtown traffic.

On his way to take the down-town car he passed Mr. William Hazeltine's house.

Now as they crowded into the Mason town car and were whisked away to the big Mason home, they compared notes on their visits.

Karslake doubled nimbly across the street to the only vehicle in sight, an impressive Rolls-Royce town-car.

What she did, in the end, was to board an up-town car and throw herself on the mercy of the conductor.

Instead, they hung to a strap in a cross-town car, changed to the ferry, and again to the Long Island Railroad.

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