car door
English
Alternative forms
- car-door
Etymology
1863 (US, applied to “railway car”).
Noun
- A door designed for use on a car.
- 1863, Gail Hamilton, Gala-Days, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, p 22:
- We found Jeru to be a pleasant city; with only one fault: the inhabitants will crowd into a car before passengers can get out; consequently the heads of the two columns collide near the car-door, and there is a general choke.
- 1863, Gail Hamilton, Gala-Days, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, p 22:
Related terms
- gull-wing door
- scissor door, jackknife door, lambo door
- suicide door (colloquial)
- butterfly door, vertical door, dihedral door