club car
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A railroad car that serves in the manner of a club (lounge), offering drinks, snacks, background music, and sometimes meals.
Dated
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see club, car; for example, one of the cars owned by a car club member.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: buffet car, refreshment car (broadly synonymous)"
- "I saw Charlie last night in the club car. When we get to Chicago, he's going to telephone Mr. Brown for further instructions."
- "Seats of parlor-car type have been installed in the rear car. This is used as a club car and no extra charge is made for its use. It is designed primarily to appeal to the business man traveling between the two cities and to offer him in comfort a service which will induce him to make the trip by electric railway instead of by automobile."
- "In a rear collision of passenger trains on the Pennsylvania at Gray, Pa., 50 miles east of Pittsburgh, on the night of June 16, about 11:45 o'clock, 14 passengers and four employees were killed and 13 passengers and one employee were injured. East bound passenger train No. 50, the Pittsburgh-Washington Express, which had been stopped because of a ruptured air hose, was run into by the following passenger train, No. 40, the Cincinnati Limited, which consisted of two locomotives, a club car and nine sleeping cars. Both locomotives of No. 40 were overturned and the club car was wrecked. All four tracks were blocked. Five passengers in the club car of No. 40 and nine in the rear sleeping car of No. 50 were killed. Both enginemen and one fireman of No. 40 were killed and the baggageman on that train was reported missing. A statement issued by the railroad company said that the flagman of No. 50 had gone back and placed torpedoes and fusees, and that when he was recalled he was passed by train No. 40 before he reached his own train; No. 40 having passed the signal [presumably an automatic block signal] as well as the burning fusees and the torpedoes."
- ""Q. Were you a conductor on Train 4015 which left Montauk, New York, Montank, Long Island, some time around the hour of 7:17 p. m.? A. That's correct. "Q. Was this a diesel train? A. That's correct. Diesel powered. "Q. How many cars in addition to the Diesel engine were there? A. Ten. "Q. Were these ten cars all passenger cars? A. Yes, they were. "Q. Was there also a club car part of that train? A. Yes. "Q. With respect to the last car of this train 4015, where was the club car located? How many cars removed from the last car? A. Four. "Q. In other words, you are saying, then, there were three cars directly behind the club car; is that correct? A. That's right. "Q. This club car is for the convenience of passengers, is it not! A. That's correct. "Q. It was on that day? A. Yes. "Q. Are refreshments sold in the club car? A. Yes. "Q. Is there a bar to the club car? A. Yes. "Q. What kind of refreshments are sold in the club car, or were sold on that day? A. The usual liquor. "Q. In other words, hard liquor? A. Hard liquor. Beer, soda. "Q. Cocktails, mixed drinks? A. Mixed drinks. "Q. And beer? A. Beer, soda, peanuts. "Q. How many persons in the employ of the Long Island Rail Road were in attendance in the club car? A. One. "Q. Was he a so-called bartender in the club car? A. That's correct. […]"Q. Was it permissible for passengers, assuming they bought a drink or beer in the club car, to take that drink from the club car to any passenger car in which they were seated or standing? A. I would presume so.""
- "We'll take the ferry to the island, and when we get off the ferry, we'll rent a club car and drive into town."
Etymology
From club + car. The golf cart sense (sense 2) is by informal (and mostly colloquial) genericization of the trade name Club Car.