jitney
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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
But the second the jitney turns into the South Fork, and I start to see trees, my shoulders drop.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
“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
This is the dramatic context for this jitney station, which is about to be boarded up by the city so that it can eventually be torn down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2019
The jitney, which is what rich people call the shuttle, goes up at seven, and I can drop the pieces off then.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
A few of the more pretentious ones pass in their own cars, or in jitneys, or upon busses.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2019
Those agents, who drive pickup 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
In other countries, mini-buses that occupy a gray world between public and private transportation go by many names: jitneys, matatus, "informal" transit.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2015
Operating costs were doubled or tripled, fares advanced little or not at all, competition with jitneys arose, and about a sixth of the industry went into the hands of receivers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
