英和和英

名詞

joy car (plural joy cars)

1. A car or vehicle ridden in for pleasure.
   • 1911, Unattributed, The Portsmouth Herald‎:

     To my way of thinking the Cadillac is to be an irridescent example of durability and "long suffering" of what a joy car should be.

   • 1922, Unattributed, Motor Age‎, page 35:

     A “joy car” is being used by the Church Extension Society of Rochester, to bring happiness to hundreds of aged persons, orphans and needy children and their parents.

   • 1939, Loch,t.a., chapter V, in I Left England‎, page 50:

     A “joy car” waited by the low wooden platform with already one or two apprehensive passengers biting their nails in the front scats. The hand on that wooden lever began it all.