jitney
adjective Cheap: a jitney dance hall (1916+)
modifier : cracked down today on illegal jitney service
noun - A nickel (1903+)
- (also jitney bus) A small bus used as public transportation •Formerly, jitneys were cars operating for low fare in more or less unregulated competition with taxis, buses, and streetcars (1914+)
- ny car, esp a small or cheap one (1917+)
[origin unknown; perhaps fr Yiddish]