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Caddy en · PROPN · etymology 1

Meanings

1. A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.
   • Call Caddy and tell her to meet us at six o'clock.

Caddy en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Cadillac + -y.

Meanings

1. (US, informal) A Cadillac car.
   • He's driving a ten-year old^([sic]) lime-green Caddy with a trunk full of golf clubs and one suitcase. We got a license number. 2000, John Sandford [pseudonym; John Roswell Camp], Easy Prey, page 126:
   • She pulled up in a shiny black Caddy at six o'clock.
   • So Dave backed his car in beside the Caddy, his eyes on the side door of the bar, no one having come out for a while. 2003, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River:
   • All those ones live in those great big piecrust mock-Two-door houses with His and Hers Caddies parked out by the hydrangea bushes. 1971, John Updike, Rabbit Redux:
   • They borrow money from your cookie jar / But they hope that they come and repossess your car / They tell you what you can and can't afford / Oh, instead of getting a Caddy they say get a Ford 1973, First Choice, “Newsy Neighbors”, in Armed and Extremely Dangerous:

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