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wholecar

wholecar noun: a piece of graffiti that covers an entire train carriage.

wholecar: a piece of graffiti that covers an entire train carriage
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Noun

wholecar (plural wholecars)

  1. (slang) A piece of graffiti that covers an entire train carriage.
    • The relatively small cars and the access to platforms by the trains has led to a great number of wholecars being painted in Hamburg over the years.2009, Torkel Sjöstrand, Subway World: Graffiti on Trains, Stockholm: Dokument Press, →ISBN, page 48

Forms of wholecar

pluralwholecars

Origin of wholecar

Borrowed from German Wholecar, equivalent to whole + car.

Questions about wholecar

What does wholecar mean?
Wholecar means a piece of graffiti that covers an entire train carriage.
What part of speech is wholecar?
Wholecar is a noun.
What is the plural of wholecar?
The plural of wholecar is wholecars.

Words near wholecar in the dictionary

  1. whole-tone scale
  2. whole-tone scales
  3. whole-wheat
  4. whole-wheat bread
  5. whole-wheat breads
  6. wholecar
  7. wholecars
  8. wholecoiner
  9. wholecoiners
  10. wholefood
  11. wholefoods

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