Model T
noun1
The first car made by the Ford Motor Company on an assembly line. Before the Model T, cars were mostly made painstakingly by hand. The Model T helped popularize automobiling for the masses; it is widely considered the model that most did so.
- a Model T moment
- the Model T of [device category X]
4 more examples
- This institution is no Model T.1920, Forrest Edwin Long, Philip Westcot Lawrence Cox, The Clearing House, page 558:
- In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole.1923, Henry Robinson Luce, Briton Hadden, editors, Time:
- Jerked my thumb at a Model T, So-and-so wouldn't stop for me.1924, Southern Methodist University, Southwest Review, page 356:
- I can find no internal evidence that the journey was not made in the back seat of a Model T with the curtains drawn—except that the style is painfully pedestrian.1928, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, The New England Quarterly, Northeastern University, page 543: