anticar

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.

Anagrams

• Catrina, acritan, catrina