antiholiday

comparative more antiholiday · superlative most antiholiday

1. Opposing or taking a negative view of the holiday season.

   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.

   1993 February 12, Jack Helbig, “Hellcab”, in Chicago Reader

plural antiholidays

1. A holiday celebrated as a form of opposition to normal or regular holidays.

   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. "

   2002 December 20, Douglas Wolk, “What's Left?”, in Chicago Reader