Meanings
plural wholecars
- slangartsA piece of graffiti that covers an entire train carriage.
The relatively small cars and the access to platforms by the trains has led to a great number of wholecars being painted in Hamburg over the years.
2009, Torkel Sjöstrand, Subway World: Graffiti on Trains, Stockholm: Dokument Press, →ISBN, page 48
Origin
- GermanWholecar
- Englishwholecar
Borrowed from German Wholecar, equivalent to whole + car.
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