jitney v.
1. (US) to travel, occas. to convey a third party, by bus or small vehicle.
 | Oregon Dly Jrnl (Portland, OR) 23 May 6/3: A rider named Buffalo Bill / Rode a horse that wouldn’t stand still; / So he said, ‘Damn the cuss, / I’ll straddle a bus, / And he jitneyed — but oh, what a spill. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | University Missourian (Columbia, MO) 14 June n.p.: Hundreds of thousands of people walked, ‘jitneyed,’ motored in their own cars. | |
| Montgomery Advertiser (AL) 17 Jan. 5/5: The Thorsby basketball team jitneyed to Helena. | |
| Coosa River News (AL) 12 July 1/5: Miss Grace Henry [...] jitneyed her alluring presence through Centre [...] en route home. | |
| Muscaine Jrnl (IA) 30 Apr. 4/4: Princess Alice, in evening gown and ermine, jitneyed home from the Soviet embassy. | |
| Boston Globe (MA) 29 May 4/1: The suburban Republican woman who jitneyed a neighbor to the polls. | |
| Time Herald (Port Huron, MI) 6 May 12/4: Jitneyed over to the village [...] this warm A.M. |
2. (US) to operate an unlicensed cab.
| Buffalo Morn. Exp. (NY) 8 June 16/3: Thomas [...] was convicted [...] of jitneying on Niagra Street [...] The man denied that he jitneyed. |