Definitions for jitneys

jitneys jit·ney

Spelling: [jit-nee]
IPA: /ˈdʒɪt ni/

Jitneys is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in jitneys (eijnsty).

Definitions for jitneys

noun

  1. a small bus or car following a regular route along which it picks up and discharges passengers, originally charging each passenger five cents.
  2. Older Slang. a nickel; five-cent piece.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to carry or ride in a jitney.

Origin of jitneys

1900-05, Americanism; of obscure origin; French jeton jetton is a phonetically implausible source

Examples for jitneys

By this time my confidence in the African jitney was somewhat shaken.

It was a long ten-minute jitney ride from the railway station.

His face was as empty of expression, as unmelodramatic, as that of a jitney driver.

And sometimes we go out on the beach and lie on the sand,—he takes me in his jitney.

"If he gets in the auto-stage, we might hire a jitney," suggested Fatty.

But we can probably catch a jitney or something from Wilkes-Barre.

He approached the spot where the girl had been left by the jitney driver.

Been dotty about you ever since you took me for a jitney driver and tipped me a quarter.

Mr. Gunn stopped his machine and came over to the other jitney.

Dad says I have to be sixteen before I can have a license to drive a jitney.

Word Value for jitneys
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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