streetcar
nounEtymology
From street + car. Coined before the era of motorcars, the term emphasized a type of car on rails that were in the street (along with foot traffic, wagons, and carriages) rather than on a separate, dedicated railroad, as a railcar is.
Definitions
A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car but sometimes multiple cars attached…
A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car but sometimes multiple cars attached together, operating on city streets; a trolley car.
- […]but after all there's nothing less displeasing to me than a beefsteak smothered in mushrooms on a balcony in sound of the Broadway streetcars, with a hand-organ playing down below, and the boys hollering extras about the latest suicide.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at streetcar. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at streetcar. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at streetcar
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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