anticar

comparative more anticar · superlative most anticar

1. Opposed to automobiles or the excessive use of automobiles

   But I don't think Eliot expected the kind of anticar sentiment that we're about.

   2003 March 28, Cara Jepsen, “Car and Rider”, in Chicago Reader

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   But in the anticar movement, it is axiomatic that the urban model should be imposed everywhere.

   1998 February 20, Harold Henderson, “Car Trouble”, in Chicago Reader

plural anticars

1. An automobile that defies the normal idea of a car

   It was a virtual anticar.

   2007 June 17, Phil Patton, “Mad Scionists: Young, Hip and a Bit Less Square”, in New York Times

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   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.

   1986, David Halberstam, The Reckoning, page 362