Uber
A car ride requested using the mobile application Uber.
Noun
- A car ride requested using the mobile application Uber.
- Simply because there are more drivers who have signed up to partner with Uber than there are yellow taxis does not mean that there are more Ubers on the road. - 2016, Jared Meyer, Uber-Positive: Why Americans Love the...
- It all comes back to two highly compelling moments. The moment you requested an Uber and the moment you exited the car with a mere thank-you. - 2016, Aaron Keller, Renée Marino, Dan Wallace, The Physics of Brand:...
- Last week, my cousin asked me how to schedule an Uber for a morning ride to the airport. Because I drive Uber almost every night (and write stories about it), she was quite surprised that I had no idea how to do it. -...
- The vehicle used for the ride.
- One's passenger or driver on Uber.
Origin
The company's name is from uber, from German über (“above, over”), as in “above all the rest (of the competition),” a principle the founders wanted to build upon.
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Derived
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Verb
- To travel by means of a mobile app-based ridesharing service, particularly but not necessarily Uber.
- Should we take the train or should we just Uber?
- You can Uber to the event and avoid the parking problem. - 2017 February 28, Adonis Hoffman, “Uber is on a collision course with regulators and lawyers”, in The Hill, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2023, retrieved...
- “I closed my Uber account months ago,” she told me recently. Even so, she still Ubers from time to time. In a manner of speaking. As with a lot of people I know, Medina doesn’t use Uber, but she still Ubers. When she...
- To work or be employed as a driver for Uber.