caraholic

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English

Etymology

car +‎ -aholic

Noun

caraholic (plural caraholics)

  1. (informal) A person who is addicted to driving or collecting cars.
    • 2001 June 12, Alden Hackmann, “Re: What were they thinking?”, in rec.crafts.metalworking (Usenet):
      FWIW, we drove a Renault Megane when we were in France a couple of years ago. I'm not a caraholic, all I usually care about is that it get me from point A to point B, which the Megane did very nicely. Of course, it was almost brand new...
    • 2005, Mandasue Heller, The Charmer, Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
      'I live about two minutes away from here. I could actually walk here faster than I can drive – if I wasn't such a lazy caraholic. []
    • 2008, Gloria Morgan, Love's Best Gift, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 47:
      "I am a caraholic, so I have several models at my disposal. I like variety in my vehicles."
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:caraholic.