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autocrash en · NOUN

Etymology

From auto + crash.

Meanings

1. A collision involving one or more motor vehicles.
   • In New York on Thursday no fewer than ten of Andy Warhol's superstars had their faces and limbs altered to ressemble autocrash victims. 1974, The Story So Far - Volumes 3-5, page 61:
   • Taxes first performed at New York Theatre Strategy in 1976, (Word Plays 3 PAJ Publication, NY 1984) is a 'word play' set against a fairly urbanised world with the traffic sounds and the autocrashes penetrating the life of this Californian bungalow. 1997, Jasbir Jain, Deconstructing character, page 109:
   • The death of his parents in that autocrash a few years ago was one reason, he knew, why Willing had picked him out of the final group of volunteers. 1959, Edmond Hamilton, The star of life, page 12:

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