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jitney

/jit-nee/US // ˈdʒɪt ni //UK // (ˈdʒɪtnɪ) //

捷运,捷运车,特快专线,特快列车

Related Words

carriage车厢,马车,车厢内,车厢里的人taxi出租车,计程车,出租汽车,士taxicab出租车,计程车,出租汽车,打车hack黑客,黑客攻击,黑客行为,黑客袭击hackney哈克尼,黑克尼,黑尼,哈克尼市tourist car旅游车,旅游汽车,观光车,旅行车

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural jit·neys.

    • : a small bus or car following a regular route along which it picks up and discharges passengers, originally charging each passenger five cents.
    • : Older Slang. a nickel; five-cent piece.
  1. 1

    jit·neyed, jit·ney·ing.

    • : to carry or ride in a jitney.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
carriage车厢,马车,车厢内,车厢里的人taxi出租车,计程车,出租汽车,士taxicab出租车,计程车,出租汽车,打车hack黑客,黑客攻击,黑客行为,黑客袭击hackney哈克尼,黑克尼,黑尼,哈克尼市tourist car旅游车,旅游汽车,观光车,旅行车

Examples

  • I never enjoyed meeting anyone so much before as that jitney man.

  • Finally the truck halted, and the jitney traveled on a few hundred feet in advance before it, too, had to stop.

  • I am starting a jitney-line and am always on hand for my clients.

  • Dad says I have to be sixteen before I can have a license to drive a jitney.

  • The jitney struck its bone-shaking gait along the curving street of Endicutt.

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