WordNet
n. a rented car; "she picked up a hire car at the airport and drove to her hotel" [syn: car rental, rent-a-car, self-drive, u-drive, you-drive]
Usage examples of "hire car".
After passing easily through Customs the Englishman took a hire car to his flat in Mayfair.
The sound of the shots had been manufactured by the hire car’.
The woman gave him two sleeping pills almost immediately, and he groggily accepted them, pretending to swallow both of them but keeping one under his tongue until she and Moynihan were satisfied that he had gone to sleep once more, and left the room together to order and sign for the hire car, locking him in.
The hire car was a bit of a sales-rep job, a Mondeo, but it would make smooth work of the A9, and what's more it had a CD player.
He brought the food back to the hire car and opened the tinfoil container on the dashboard, stirring the heroin into the rich massala sauce before replacing the cardboard lid and putting it all back inside the poly bag.
We disconnected, and I ate a sandwich and drank coffee at an all night lunch counter at the bus station before returning to my hire car and pointing its nose again towards the farm and the hills.
It seemed like days rather than mere hours since I had dropped off my hire car in Oxford and set off for the station with the simple-minded plan of travelling from Oxford to Cambridge by way of a lunchtime break at Milton Keynes.
He wants a hire car till he gets his own, so I'm to hire him one and he's sent me a fax of his driver's licence.