Uber

A car ride requested using the mobile application Uber.

Noun

  1. 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. -...
  2. The vehicle used for the ride.
  3. 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.

Forms

Ubers uber

Derived

Luber Uberfication Uberification Uberisation uberisation uberise Uberise Uberization uberization uberize Uberize Uber problem

Verb

  1. 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...
  2. To work or be employed as a driver for Uber.

Forms

Ubers Ubering Ubered uber

Related

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