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garageful en · NOUN

Etymology

From garage + -ful.

Meanings

1. Enough to fill a garage.
   • THE OLD PINHEAD with the long-lashed greenies finally freaked out completely the other night and bought himself numerous sacksful, boxesful, basketsful, basementsful and garagesful of assorted bits and pieces of a (cue the trumpets, cymbals and dancing girls) 1934 MG-PA. 1973 August 14, Bob Brumfield, “Come And Ride With Me, Lucille”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, 133rd year, number 126, page 5:
   • I guess I could have had a whole garageful of bicycles if I’d wanted to ask the old man. My mother probably would have got me two garagefuls. 1970, Vincent Siciliano, Unless They Kill Me First, New York, N.Y.: Award Books; London: Tandem Books, →LCCN, page 14:
   • Automobiling does not become much cheaper as the months roll by. Putting aside the cost and maintenance of the cars, the question of clothes is not an inconsiderable item of expense, I know one young blade who owns a garageful of machines, representing an investment of over $100,000. 1907 July 26, “Prepared for Guests”, in The New Hartford Tribune, volume XXVII, number 37, New Hartford, Conn.:

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