town car

noun

1. an automobile having an enclosed rear seat separated by a glass partition from the open driver's seat.

Word History and Origins

Origin of town car¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

Because he was so famous and so wealthy, he knew there was a good chance the woman he called would say yes, and having squired her around Manhattan in a big Town Car and taken her to see a movie that just opened or Elton John at Madison Square Garden, one thing was likely to lead to another, and…

From Salon

The scene ends with the trio hopping into a ’80s-era black limo, which someone on set claims is the same Lincoln town car featured in “Die Hard” and is driven by Charles’s old chauffeur from his “Brazzos” days.

From Los Angeles Times

“The ’20s were his time to live it up,” he said, recalling his uncle residing at Hollywood’s Garden of Allah Hotel, owning a Town Car — but not driving it — and parading an 18-year-old on his arm well into his 40s.

From Los Angeles Times

The second-most-well-known left-leaning provocateur running for president as an independent candidate at the moment is professor and activist Cornel West, who was once seen by your correspondent and several acquaintances driving, by himself, on the New Jersey Turnpike in a gigantic black vintage Lincoln Town Car–style vehicle so enormous and perfectly suited to the aesthetic of his self-styling as a fiery old-school rabble-rouser/prophet that it made everyone present spontaneously laugh out loud.

From Slate

Steve Murray, of Kent, signed his support on the trunk of his 2007 Lincoln Town Car while fueling up.

From Seattle Times