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Definition of Runabouts
1. runabout [n] - See also: runabout
Lexicographical Neighbors of Runabouts
Literary usage of Runabouts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Automobile Handbook by Leonard Elliott Brookes (1918)
"used chiefly on small automobiles, or runabouts; but when cheapness of construction
is an object they are sometimes employed on touring cars. In Fig. ..."
2. International Motor Cyclopaedia ...: Year Book (1908)
"Gasolene stock runabouts from $2001 to $2500—Knox, ist. Time, im. 22-55. ...
For gasolene stock runabouts costing $3001 to $4000—Thomas, ist. Time, im. ..."
3. The Horseless Age (1904)
"The export in light steam runabouts to England has almost ceased, but instead
England now takes large numbers of American gasoline runabouts and some steam ..."
4. Richmond, Virginia: Report on a Survey of the City Government by Civic association of Richmond, Va (1917)
"Ambulances Virginia Hospital and City Home •2 Three-passenger cars Electric plant
2 Trucks Electric plant 1 Ford Wagon Electric plant 2 runabouts Gas works ..."
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