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grip car

noun

Definitions

  1. A streetcar, especially a cable car.

    • After dining Sam got on a grip car of the Wabash Avenue Cable, sitting on the front seat and letting the panorama of the town roll up to him.
    • Those were the days of the cable cars and we all jumped on a grip-car and set off visiting gaily.
    • Seats in the grip car were very popular in the summer but in cold weather the closed car with its coal burning stove won out.

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