town car

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town car

noun town cars

  1. 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. Her great-uncle was a wealthy man. The type who had a town car and who had a right-hand man to drive it.

    Similar: coupé de ville

  2. informal A hired non-stretch limousine, traditionally but not necessarily a standard-wheelbase Lincoln Town Car or Cadillac sedan. They called to get a town car sent out to the airport to pick up the visiting executives for the sales conference.
  3. nonstandard Synonym of city car.

    Similar: city car

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noun car with open-topped driver's position

DeutschCoupé de Ville

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@misc{town_car_2026,
  title = {town car},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/town%20car},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}