What is "carfare"

Usage examples of "carfare".

One time she had gone there to bring him an apron and carfare to go to a job.

Find a nickel carfare for him and tell him, Evy, because she lives closer than Sissy.

When Francie was raised to twenty dollars a week, mama gave her five dollars a week for herself to pay for her carfare, lunches, and clothes.

Anything in the till there Liz I just need carfare get out to the airport, take this check down to the bank in the morning see if they'll cash it.

He runs out of here didn't even have carfare, I mean he's crazy Bibbs.

You've got no more money than what's in your pocket, you haven't even got carfare to Luanda where they might take you in.

God damn State Department shipped him back with Teakell they want three thousand some dollars carfare before they'll release the body, get on them and tell them if it's not there for this funeral in Michigan Friday Grimes will have their ass.

I heard men beg for work who had been Egyptologists, botanists, surgeons, gold-miners, professors of Oriental languages, musicians, engineers, physicians, astronomers, anthropologists, chemists, mathematicians, mayors of cities and governors of states, prison warders, cow-punchers, lumberjacks, sailors, oyster pirates, stevedores, riveters, dentists, surgeons, painters, sculptors, plumbers, architects, dope peddlers, abortionists, white slavers, sea divers, steeplejacks, farmers, cloak and suit salesmen, trappers, lighthouse keepers, pimps, aldermen, senators, every bloody thing under the sun, and all of them down and out, begging for work for cigarettes, for carfare, for a chance, Christ Almighty, just another chance!

He walked from one end of Far Rockaway to the other but nobody seemed to give a fuck about handing out carfare in the rain.

I note this because just before I gave it to her good and proper I made a mental note to pocket a few coins for my carfare home.

Not that it was necessary, because she had already loaned me a few dollars, but to make up for the carfare which I was lacking in Far Rockaway.

All I asked for was carfare -to hunt for the mythical job - and a little pin money for cigarettes, movies, et cetera.

What a goddamned waste of a day, not to mention the carfare coming and going.

Maybe when he got outside he could bum money for carfare from somebody.

I saved out enough money for carfare and we drank the rest of the six dollars.