antiholiday
English
Etymology
anti- + holiday
Adjective
antiholiday (comparative more antiholiday, superlative most antiholiday)
- Opposing or taking a negative view of the holiday season
- 1993 February 12, Jack Helbig, “Hellcab”, in Chicago Reader:
- Originally entitled Hellcab Does Christmas and marketed as a hip antiholiday holiday show, Will Kern's incredibly black comedy about a day in the life of a poor beleaguered cab driver was never, strictly speaking, a holiday show.
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Noun
antiholiday (plural antiholidays)
- A holiday celebrated as a form of opposition to normal holidays
- 2002 December 20, Douglas Wolk, “What's Left?”, in Chicago Reader:
- The idea was to celebrate Buy Nothing Day, an antiholiday invented by the Vancouver-based Media Foundation in the early 90s that takes place on what's traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year. "
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