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/dʒˈɪtni/ Listen

noun

jitney n.

A small bus or similar vehicle carrying passengers on a fixed route, used for public transport. Note: Probably so called because they once charged a nickel for the ride.

A five-cent piece; a nickel. (slang, archaic)

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Etymology of 'Jitney'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jitney" Quotes from Famous Books

... day. But if the trolley car stops running down the street to play with the jitney bus, so the pussy cat can have a ride when it wants to go shopping in the three and four-cent store, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily ...

— Uncle Wiggily in the Woods • Howard R. Garis

... tube and climbed on the jitney that wound its way through the corridors of the pathology sector and into the quiet, austere quarters of the resident pathologists. He found the proper concourse, and moments later he was pressing his thumb against the identification plate outside ...

— Star Surgeon • Alan Nourse

... automobile down into Harrimay only ten minutes later. It was a pretty but rather somnolent place, just a string of white-painted, green-blinded houses and two or three stores along both sides of an oiled highway. It was a long ten-minute jitney ride from ...

— The Campfire Girls of Roselawn - A Strange Message from the Air • Margaret Penrose

... on his way out to make sure about the road. I wanted to come with him, but there was no room in his car. He refused to bring me, anyhow. I managed to worm out of him what your plans were, and the doctor's jitney did ...

— The Apartment Next Door • William Andrew Johnston

... "You mean the jail jitney. Do you know, they never yet put me in one. Always conveyed me other ways. Weren't so bad to me either. I guess maybe your heart is in the right place or you wouldn't have let me rest and given me the drink, even if ...

— Penny of Top Hill Trail • Belle Kanaris Maniates