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street-car
1. N. Amer. A passenger car, running through the streets, usually on rails; a tram-car.
1862A. Trollope N. Amer. I. 185 Omnibuses, or street cars working on rails run hither and thither. 1872Howells Wedd. Journ. (1892) 29 The street-cars that slowly tinkled up and down. 1887Grip (Toronto) 5 Feb. 6/2 Toronto law is plain and hard—no streetcars out on Sunday. 1915D. R. Campbell Proving of Virginia 108 So I shall bid you good-by and take a street car home. 1929M. de la Roche Whiteoaks iv. 58 They boarded a street car and stood together, swaying, hanging by the straps,..oblivious of the other passengers. 1931W. G. McAdoo Crowded Years iv. 44 The street cars went like sleepy tortoises; they were pulled by mules. 1947Partisan Rev. XIV. 366 They returned in a streetcar, although Jasper wanted to take a taxi. 1947T. Williams (title) A streetcar named Desire. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Jan. 17/1 Bus companies reported delays and power failure contributed to the problems of city street cars. 1974Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 26 Oct. 5-d/1 The people who came to the Barons-Rangers game that night long ago came by streetcar and bus and by shank's mare as well as by auto. 1978Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. (Record) 9/4 The Warsaw street cars stop sixty or seventy meters from the gates of the ghetto.
attrib.1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1858/1 Dean and Coleman's street-car rail. 1888Pennell Sent. Journey 20 Here we turned from river and street-car track to walk to the other end of the town.
2. A shell. Mil. slang.
1920C. R. Herr Company F Hist.: 319th Infantry 22 The air was filled with the sounds of the shells as they lazily went on their way towards the back lines of both sides. ‘Street cars’..the boys called them. 1950R. Chandler Let. 18 May (1966) 78 Doesn't he [sc. Partridge] overlook some of the most commonly used words of soldier-slang? E.g...‘street cars’ or ‘tram cars’ for heavy long range shells. |