Etymology

paper driver

Today it means: A person who has a driver's license but never drives. Full definition →

Japanese ペーパードライバー ← English paper
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The story

  1. English · derived frompaper
  2. Japanese · borrowed fromペーパードライバー
  3. English todaypaper driver

Borrowed from Japanese ペーパードライバー (pēpā doraibā), from English paper + driver.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.