roadtrip

See also: Roadtrip and road trip

English

Noun

roadtrip (plural roadtrips)

1. Alternative form of road trip.
   • 1998, Darren Short, An Invitation from Uncle Sam: A British Family’s Year of Survival in Suburban USA, Orpington: Anglo-Minnesotan Books, →ISBN, page 252:

     There were times when we almost forgot about her as she sat quietly reading picture books and playing with small toys taken from her Sesame Street rucksack; it was only on the few occasions when she requested yet another spin of her nursery rhyme cassette that we were brought back to the reality of family roadtrips.

   • 2002, Tere Drenth, “Preserving Your Car’s Resale Value”, in fastread Buying and Leasing a Car: All the Steps You Need to Know to Get the Car You Want, Avon, Mass.: Adams Media Corporation, →ISBN, page 86:

     You can reduce your mileage by walking or riding a bike on short errands, moving closer to work, and renting a vehicle for long roadtrips.

   • 2005, Mike Marriner, Brian McAllister, Nathan Gebhard, “The Roadtrip Nation Story”, in Finding the Open Road: A Guide to Self-Construction Rather than Mass Production (A Roadtrip Nation Book), Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 08:

     We had already broadcast our first roadtrip documentary on public television, so we went back to the same programmers and approached them with a new idea—“What if we shot an annual documentary series about these student roadtrips that are happening every summer and then aired it on public television? […]”