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jitney

[jit-nee] / ˈdʒɪt ni /


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Wave, a public jitney, runs routes all over the island and is free through the end of 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

“When I was younger and couldn’t afford an actual vacation, I would bring my toddler on an adventure I called ‘the bus to the boat to the jitney to the beach,’ ” Coven said.

From Seattle Times Jul. 18, 2023

But Wilson is less interested in mining any potential melodrama than he is in exploring the contrasting worldviews between the aptly named Youngblood and the older jitney drivers, who challenge, rebuke and encourage him.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 25, 2019

Who needs an on-call jitney in downtown Chicago?

From New York Times May 15, 2018

The jitney takes about twenty minutes to drop me off at Mr. Reilly’s work.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

I couldn’t agree more with Brian Broome’s Nov. 9 Tuesday Opinion column, “So long, jitneys — and farewell to our connective tissue.”

From Washington Post Nov. 12, 2021

Those agents, who drive pick-up trucks, are different than the parking enforcement agents that ticket vehicles for meter violations and other offenses, who drive small vehicles sometimes called jitneys.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 19, 2018

Simultaneously serving as their kids’ drill masters, coaches, instructors, one-on-one opponents, hype men, financiers, advisers, protectors, bouncers, dietitians, jitneys, critics, vision boards, sponsors, and parents.

From Slate May 5, 2017

Similar services, sometimes called jitneys, have operated in San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Houston.

From Washington Post

I'm on my way to the Woolston mills, and I missed so many trains, and caught so many jitneys I lost count.

From The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C. by Lilian Garis




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