grip car

See also: grip-car

English

Alternative forms

• grip-car

Noun

grip car (plural grip cars)

1. (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.

   • 2021, Arthur Joel Bolinger, edited by Jeffrey H. Barker and Melissa Walker, Kansas Boy: The Memoir of A.J. Bolinger‎^[1], University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 70:

     Seats in the grip car were very popular in the summer but in cold weather the closed car with its coal burning stove won out.