caraholic

English

Etymology

From 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^[1] (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^[2], 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.