anticar meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

anticar

adj

Etymology From anti- + car.

Opposed to automobiles or the excessive use of automobiles

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:
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:

noun

Etymology From anti- + car.

An automobile that defies the normal idea of a car

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:
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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