grip car
Appearance
See also: grip-car
English
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[edit]- (chiefly US, dated) A streetcar, especially a cable car.
- 1916, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 3, in Windy McPherson's Son, John Lane Company, New York, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1953, Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, As I Remember, Harper, →OCLC, page 81:
- Those were the days of the cable cars and we all jumped on a grip-car and set off visiting gaily.