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kiss and ride
 n.— «It has created “park and ride” terminals, where passengers may leave their cars in the morning. It has promoted “kiss and ride” points, where wives are urged to deposit their husbands for the daily trip into town by bus.» —“Public Transit Stars in Success Story” by James Kilpatrick Modesto Bee And News-Herald (California) Mar. 11, 1973. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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