grip car

See also: grip-car

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Noun

grip car (plural grip cars)

  1. (US, dated) A streetcar, especially a cable car.
    • 1916, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 3, in Windy McPherson's Son:
      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.
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