carpool

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After planning for the longest time, you feel like backing out, you would rather watch batman or spider man, but you know you can't deep in your heart a carpool is a carpool, and your friends are expecting to have a ride share in your car.

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  1. noun An arrangement whereby several participants or their children travel together in one vehicle, the participants sharing the costs and often taking turns as the driver.
  2. noun A group, as of commuters or parents, participating in a carpool.
  3. intransitive verb To travel in a carpool.
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  • Take the train, carpool, and consolidate your shopping trips. —  BlogHer
  • After planning for the longest time, you feel like backing out, you would rather watch batman or spider man, but you know you can't deep in your heart a carpool is a carpool, and your friends are expecting to have a ride share in your car. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • The perfect Mom doesn't drive carpool - carpool drives perfect Mom. —  RVABlogs
  • I live in in SoCal and will be looking to carpool (to be green and I am cheap) to Met games in LA, SD, Arizona, and possibly SF this summer so I started looking online for a site that would help me find people like myself and to no avail, could not. —  Mets Geek
  • Shanahan said it's a challenge to convince people to carpool, take public transit, or even change their incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs. —  daytondailynews.com - News
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