Meaning of red car | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A streetcar of the former Pacific Electric Railway mass transit system that went all across Greater Los Angeles.
   historical, informal
2. The entire now-defunct corporation and system of the Pacific Electric Railway.
   historical
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, car.

Examples

“My father used to talk about how you could take a red car just about anywhere in the Los Angeles area.”

“The red car operated from 1901–1961.”

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