jitney

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

“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

But Wilson is less interested in mining any potential melodrama than he is in exploring the contrasting worldviews between the aptly named Youngblood and the older jitney drivers, who challenge, rebuke and encourage him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2019

Who needs an on-call jitney in downtown Chicago?

From New York Times ● May 15, 2018

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

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

Simultaneously serving as their kids’ drill masters, coaches, instructors, one-on-one opponents, hype men, financiers, advisers, protectors, bouncers, dietitians, jitneys, critics, vision boards, sponsors, and parents.

From Slate ● May 5, 2017

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

Any topic attracting Bird's research inevitably prompts a fascination aboard the hotel jitneys that deliver the Celtics players to airport or gym.

From Time Magazine Archive

"There are six of us, and we could get one of the jitneys to take us over to the Hall, baggage and all, for half a dollar."

From The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets by Edward Stratemeyer