town car

English

Noun

town car (plural town cars)

2. (automotive) 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.

   Synonym: coupé de ville

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

4. (automotive, informal) A hired non-stretch limousine, traditionally but not necessarily a standard-wheelbase Lincoln Town Car or Cadillac sedan. [1970s-present]

   Coordinate terms: stretch limousine, stretch

   They called to get a town car sent out to the airport to pick up the visiting executives for the sales conference.

6. (automotive, nonstandard) Synonym of city car.

Translations

car with open-topped driver's position

• Finnish: coupé de ville