town car
English
[edit]Noun
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- (automotive) A car having a kind of bodystyle produced from 1908 to 1939 with an external or open-topped driver's position and an enclosed compartment for passengers.
- Synonym: coupé de ville
- Her great-uncle was a wealthy man. The type who had a town car and who had a right-hand man to drive it.
- (automotive, informal) A hired non-stretch limousine, traditionally but not necessarily a standard-wheelbase Lincoln Town Car or Cadillac sedan. [1970s-present]
- Coordinate terms: stretch limousine, stretch
- They called to get a town car sent out to the airport to pick up the visiting executives for the sales conference.
- (automotive, nonstandard) Synonym of city car.
Translations
[edit]car with open-topped driver's position
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