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> > In the UK, a "lift" is both an elevator and passage in a car. It depends on the context.
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> Although, for some reason, it really makes me laugh to think of someone stopping their car to offer someone on the street an elevator.

Elevator jokes are a whole catagory. They probably out-number elephant jokes. This one goes back to the 1930's:

Man to elevator operator: "How do you like your job?"
Elevator operator: "Oh, it has it's up's and downs."

You would know it was an old joke. Elevators don't have operators anymore.

Howard