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n. (context dated English) A streetcar (gloss: tram, trolley).
Usage examples of "surface car".
The task seemed interminable, and I raged almost as violently as the hermit when I saw the hours slipping by in a breathless, foodless round of vain telephoning, and a hectic quest from place to place, hither and thither by subway and surface car.
Any kind of surface car was going to be impractical, given the stiffness of the tholin slush.
Any kind of surface car was going to be impractical, given the stiddness of the tholin slush.
I replied as we hopped off a surface car not far from our destination.
So involved in my thoughts that I ignored the occasional surface car that passed, barely aware of one stopping behind me.
He grabbed the first Unity surface car in sight and sped back across New York to his office.