anticar

English

Etymology

anti- + car

Adjective

anticar (comparative more anticar, superlative most anticar)

  1. Opposed to automobiles or the excessive use of automobiles
    • 1998 February 20, Harold Henderson, “Car Trouble”, in Chicago Reader:
      But in the anticar movement, it is axiomatic that the urban model should be imposed everywhere.
    • 2003 March 28, Cara Jepsen, “Car and Rider”, in Chicago Reader:
      But I don't think Eliot expected the kind of anticar sentiment that we're about.

Noun

anticar (plural anticars)

  1. An automobile that defies the normal idea of a car
    • 1986, David Halberstam, The Reckoning, page 362:
      He considered the Falcon an anticar. He thought it served the puritan bias of the man who made it more than the needs of the customers or the company.
    • 2007 June 17, Phil Patton, “Mad Scionists: Young, Hip and a Bit Less Square”, in New York Times:
      It was a virtual anticar.

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