Sunday driver
Sunday driver noun: one who drives slowly or inexpertly, as for leisure or sightseeing.
Noun
Sunday driver (plural Sunday drivers)
- One who drives slowly or inexpertly, as for leisure or sightseeing.
- I was eager to get there, but I got stuck behind one Sunday driver after another on that trip.
- Wallace is hardly your typical Sunday driver out on a jaunt in the countryside.1990 July 30, Davide Thigpen, “Real-Life Days of Thunder”, in Time
- One who drives infrequently, and often poorly.
Forms of Sunday driver
| plural | Sunday drivers |
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Origin of Sunday driver
From Sunday + driver, Sunday being a popular day for leisure driving.
Questions about Sunday driver
- What does Sunday driver mean?
- Sunday driver means one who drives slowly or inexpertly, as for leisure or sightseeing.
- What part of speech is Sunday driver?
- Sunday driver is a noun.
- What is the plural of Sunday driver?
- The plural of Sunday driver is Sunday drivers.
Words near Sunday driver in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sunday driver (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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