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rear vision mirror en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (Australia, New-Zealand) A rear-view mirror.
    • The cockatoo was tied with dunny chain to the outside rear-vision mirror from which perch it shrieked and wailed and attacked its own reflection. 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 298:
    • The girl was watching my rear vision mirror, and when I looked into it, she murmured, ‘You're welcome.’ 2007, Ben Peek, Black Sheep:
    • I stood on the brake and shoved the gear stick into reverse, not even looking in the rear-vision mirror, thinking there was no need. 1995, John Marsden, The Third Day, The Frost:

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rear vision mirrors Number=Plur lexicographic
rear-vision mirror alternative lexicographic