auton.1
/ˈɔːtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɔdoʊ/, /ˈɑdoʊ/ historical in later use.
Chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese contexts: = auto-da-fé n.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > search for heresy > [noun] > burning
auto1563
heretic-burning1570
act of faith1600
Bonnering1613
auto-da-fé1697
act1709
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1729/2 Thei brought the said Nicolas Burton..to a place wher the said inquisition sat in iudgement, which they cal the Awto.
1589 R. Tomson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 583 At the least fiue or sixe thousand..there were that come one hundreth mile off, to see the saide Auto (as they call it).
1692 T. Brown tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Mem. Court Spain 49 On the 30th of June there was kept at Madrid an Auto de Inquisition; That is to say, a general Execution of the Jews.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Act They usually contrive the Auto to fall on some great Festival.
1823 Ld. Byron Age of Bronze vii. 18 The Faith's red ‘auto’, fed with human fuel.
1894 J. Stoughton Recoll. Long Life xiv. 328 Here some of the autos were held in the seventeenth century.
1920 P. Smith Age of Reformation viii. 416 At the first auto held at Mexico in 1574 thirty-six Lutherans were punished.
1937 C. Roth Spanish Inquisition (1964) xi. 243 One of the last autos on the grand scale took place at Madrid.
2002 J. M. Anderson Daily Life during Spanish Inquisition v. 78 Another auto was held six months later with the king present.
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auton.2
/ˈɔːtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɔdoʊ/, /ˈɑdoʊ/ Chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese contexts: a play with a religious or moral subject.Autos were originally allegorical, similar to English miracle plays of the Middle Ages. The term is also used with reference to autos sacramentales, short plays popular in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries and typically performed outdoors during the feast of Corpus Christi.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun]
playeOE
joyc1440
sportc1475
historya1509
drama?1521
stage playa1535
gameplay1560
show1565
device1598
piece1616
auto1670
action1679
natak1826
speakie1921
1670 tr. A. de Brunel Journey into Spain 87 In the afternoon about five a clock, Autos [Fr. Autos] are represented: these are ghostly Comedies, with interludes.
1779 H. Swinburne Trav. Spain iii. 9 Autos and mysterios are prohibited on the theatres of Madrid.
1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art II. 190 Calderon founded on it one of his finest autos, the ‘Magico Prodigioso’.
1875 Catholic World Apr. 36/1 We have seen the primitive condition of the autos when Lope de Vega took possession of the stage.
1922 J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly Spanish Lit. vii. 81 Calderon wrote about eighty autos, twenty entremeses, and one hundred and twenty general plays.
1992 M. McKendrick Theatre in Spain, 1490–1700 iii. 73 It has been estimated that the total production of the seventeenth-century Spanish drama was in the region of 10,000 plays and 1,000 autos.
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auton.3
/ˈɔːtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɔdoʊ/, /ˈɑdoʊ/ rare.
= autobiography n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > types of biography > autobiography or memoirs
story1533
autography1661
memoirs1676
idiographya1734
self-biography1796
autobiography1797
reminiscence1797
autobiog1829
autobio1856
auto1881
curriculum vitae1902
biodata1947
vita1949
c.v.1971
1881 Shaker Manifesto Jan. 14/1 I will show you my auto, from which you will perceive that I..came out of that same company of earnest, sincere souls, who worked for the good of mankind.
1900 M. Wortman in M. H. Cane et al. Naughty-Naughtian 166 I have elected my Senior year in the Law School, where I pretend I am so busy I can't take time to write my ‘auto’.
1940 V. Woolf Writer's Diary 6 Jan. (1953) 323 I suppose the origin of many of the new middle aged autos.
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† auton.4
Obsolete. rare.
= autotype n. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > photomechanical or process printing > [noun] > other processes > prints
photopapyrograph1862
photo-relief1866
autotype1868
Albertype1869
photochromotype1877
auto1882
photoceramic1892
linograph1970
giclée1995
1882 A. C. Swinburne Lett. (1960) IV. 309 The autos gave great satisfaction. I gave one to my mother, who fell in love with it.
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auton.5
/ˈɔːtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɔdoʊ/, /ˈɑdoʊ/ Originally and chiefly North American.
= automobile n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > motor vehicle
automotor1869
automobile1895
auto1899
MPV1987
1899 Boston Herald 4 July 4/7 If we must Americanise and shorten the word, why not call them ‘autos’?
1902 Aeronaut. World (U.S.) 1 Oct. 60/1 Cycles, autos and all other contrivances for rapid transit.
1922 Z. Grey Tales Lonely Trails iv. 245 I hired the two ranchers to hurry us by auto to Flagstaff.
1945 Yuma (Arizona) Daily Sun 25 July 3/4 (heading) Motor of the future: Super-jets to drive trains, planes, ships, autos.
1958 Billboard 20 Oct. 41/4 Old garages for autos of hotel guests will also be razed and a blacktopped parking lot installed.
1971 Times 28 Dec. (Summer Holidays section) p. iii/5 You glide past the slag heaps of abandoned autos.
1991 Garbage Jan.–Feb. 71/1 (advt.) ‘Cars of Tomorrow’ will showcase alternative fuels and high mileage autos.
2006 Wired May 1168/1 Toll-paying devices..that sit on car dashboards, pinging tollgates as autos whiz through.
Compounds
C1. General attributive, as auto accident, auto dealer, auto industry, auto manufacturer, auto-part, etc.
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1899 Chicago Trib. 4 Nov. 16/1 (caption) Women as ‘Auto’ drivers.
1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Oct. 6/1 These auto enthusiasts are trying hard.
1903 Life July–Dec. 23/1 (advt.) Before you start out lubricate all auto parts with Dixon's automobile graphites.
1910 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 27 June 6/6 (advt.) Auto safety and comfort.
1920 S. Lewis Main St. ii. 14 Bresnahan—you know—the famous auto manufacturer.
1936 Pop. Mech. Jan. 3 (caption) Low stream-line model with riveted body exhibited at British Auto Show.
1956 Business Week 27 Oct. 47/1 Reith and others in the auto industry are coming to realize that selling is but a part of marketing.
1978 J. B. Lane City of Cent. viii. 183 Gary works was operating at full capacity, and auto dealers were making record sales.
1991 S. Faludi Backlash iv. xiv. 424 The mother took a few Valium pills while pregnant, to ease pain caused by an auto accident injury.
2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 Feb. 9/3 President Obama is expected to appoint a ‘car czar’ to ‘assess’ the plans of the auto companies.
C2.
auto body n. the outer covering of a motor vehicle (typically made of metal, fibreglass, or plastic), as distinguished from its chassis; frequently attributive.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork
auto body1904
bodywork1908
skin1921
shell1937
1904 Chicago Tribune 21 Mar. 11/3 (advt.) Special bargains in auto bodies and tops.
1950 N. Cassady Let. 20 Nov. (2005) 208 A..chief who'd left the reservation long ago to become a skilled autobody mechanic.
1995 Miami (Florida) Herald (Nexis) 30 Apr. 11 g Some auto bodies are fiberglass.
2003 Directory Distance Learning Opportunities 23 Basic principles and ‘how-to’ steps for auto body reconstruction and repair.
auto camp n. now chiefly historical a campsite for motorists; = motor camp n. at motor n. and adj. Compounds 1c.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > a parking place > area where caravans may be parked > and camping site
auto camp1904
motor camp1925
1904 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 25 Feb. 7/2 (heading) St. Louis auto camp.
1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations xix. 274 Sign-boards..telling travellers about hotels and auto-camps.
2005 E. J. Fleming Carole Landis ii. 11 The Auto Camp was cheap.
auto club n. any of various clubs or organizations for motorists or car enthusiasts; = automobile club n. at automobile adj. and n. Compounds 2.
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1900 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos 23 Nov. 7/4 Columbia has started an auto club and will take steps to arrange a triple road contest with Yale and Harvard.
1936 Condor 38 201 Many road signs are shot so full of holes that they are ruined. Ask the Auto Club what they think of these vandals.
1999 A. Flett-Giordano & C. Ranberg in Best of Frasier 55 The car has stalled. Frasier tries the key, but the engine won't turn over... Frasier: Call the auto club. I'm gonna make a run for it.
2009 Observer (Gladstone, Queensland) (Nexis) 28 Mar. 4 A member of the Gladstone Auto Club for 27 years, Graeme said he has had a passion for cars his entire life.
auto court n. = motel n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > hotel
hotel1687
hotel garni1744
lodgea1817
gasthof1832
temperance house1833
temperance hotel1837
railway hotel1839
palace hotel1844
parador1845
caravanserai1848
resort hotel1886
metropole1890
Ritz1900
trust house1902
apartment hotel1909
welfare hotel1915
motel1925
motor hotel1925
auto court1926
motor court1936
motor lodge1936
residential1940
botel1956
floatel1959
apartotel1965
motor inn1967
1926 Automobile Club S. Calif. (title) Auto camps, courts and camp grounds of California.
1934 J. M. Cain Postman always rings Twice i. 4 A half dozen shacks that they called an auto court.
1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential ii. xiv. 170 The Mafia headquarters and assembly point is in an auto court along the road to Caliente.
2005 M. Kluckner Vanishing Brit. Columbia 120 Although most of them are in ruins, the auto courts and motels of the Fraser Canyon are a window onto an early era of tourism and travel.
autocrime n. a crime involving a motor vehicle; (chiefly British) any of various crimes involving theft from or of, or criminal damage to, a motor vehicle; (also) crimes of this type considered collectively.
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1904 Chicago Tribune 23 Nov. 2/2 (headline) Prisoner picked up in Channahon not clearly linked with ‘auto’ crime.
1974 Times 7 Mar. 4/7 ‘Autocrime’ (stealing cars and from them) increased by 4 per cent.
1992 Crime & Justice 16 16 The street immediately outside victims' residences was the most common location for ‘autocrimes’ (thefts of and from vehicles and vandalism).
2002 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 2 Aug. 27 The arrest of offenders responsible for..auto crime.
autojumble n. chiefly British a sale of assorted second-hand motor vehicle parts and accessories, esp. for discontinued or vintage models; cf. jumble n.1 1b.
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1967 Times 25 Aug. 13/2 Autojumble '67. An American Style ‘Swap Meet’. Montagu Motor Museum. Beaulieu.
1986 Motorcycle Sport Sept. 395/3 I had..a stall at the autojumble.
2000 Pract. Classics June 20/4 The brake components, already at autojumble prices, are subject to a further 10% discount.
auto mall n. a number of car and truck dealerships situated together, either in a dedicated retail location or on the same street.In quot. 1958: a large open area set aside temporarily for an automobile sale.
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1958 Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News 13 Apr. 18 a The auto mall was tried back in November and was labeled a success despite interference from the weather.
1970 N.Y. Times 24 May f2 (caption) South Philadelphia auto mall. Five auto and three truck dealers have set up new sales operations there.
2008 C. Bock Beautiful Children i. 15 He'd headed north and east,..passing Anaheim's tawdry theme parks and Corona's clot of auto malls.
auto mechanics n. the practice or study of the construction, maintenance, or repair of automobiles.
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1909 Reformatory Press 10 July 6/2 Kirkland claims to be an expert in automechanics.
1985 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 29 Jan. c1 Some 14,000 people, from professionals in auto mechanics and body repairers to families to motorheads..watched and heard the three shows this weekend in the Pavilion.
2006 New Yorker 4 Sept. 64/3 Uncanonical subjects, such as Lusophone language, the writings of Ivan Illich..and auto mechanics, are offered alongside Shakespeare, Proust, Lévi-Strauss, and Marx.
auto pact n. (also with capital initial(s)) the United States–Canada automotive products agreement. Signed in 1965, the agreement abolished tariffs on the sale of vehicles and automotive parts between the two countries, with the provision that to import cars duty-free into Canada, U.S. manufacturers had to use a minimum proportion of Canadian components and build in Canada a number of vehicles proportionate to their Canadian sales.
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1964 Steel 21 Sept. 25/2 Most metalworking executives express little doubt that the auto pact will be inflationary.
1972 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Feb. 1/5 Experience under the U.S.-Canadian auto pact and in the Common Market has emboldened Detroit to expand multi-national sourcing of parts and components.
2000 Maclean's 19 June (Insert) 27-8 (advt.) The Autopact is currently being challenged before the WTO.
auto pollution n. pollution caused by motor-vehicle exhaust emissions.
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1924 N.Y. Times 31 Dec. 12/7 (headline) Auto pollution of the air.
1960 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 6 Apr. 6 d/4 Smog [bill]..asks Public Health Department to consider eye irritation and vegetable damage in setting auto pollution limits.
2003 M. Albert Parecon i. iii. 60 Others in society..breathe the auto pollution the car generates.
autotest n. Motor Racing an automobile race; spec. (chiefly British) a slalom contest (cf. slalom n. 4).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > type of racing or race
autotest1901
Grand Prix1905
GP1908
grande épreuve1946
drag race1954
autocross1956
mud run1959
1901 N.Y. Times 21 Apr. 9/3 Wet weather auto test... Seldom, if ever, has a road race..been conducted under more disagreeable conditions.
1973 Times 13 July (Motor Racing section) p. vii/2 With the reduction in rally events the other branches of the sport have blossomed—sprints, hill-climbs, rallycross, auto-test, autocross and drag racing.
2000 Irish Times (Nexis) 27 Oct. (Sports section) 20 Unless [he] can maintain his current meteoric progress around the autotest markers.
auto theft n. the theft of a motor vehicle; crimes of this type considered collectively.
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1905 Alton (Illinois) Evening Tel. 13 Jan. (heading) Auto theft may solve a murder.
1974 Black Panther 19 Jan. 3/2 The government has accused the two Native Americans of crimes such as burglary, larceny, and auto theft.
2005 Michigan Law Rev. 103 1843 During the mid-1980s auto theft was on the rise in the United States.
auto worker n. a person employed in the motor-vehicle manufacturing industry.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of wheels or wheeled vehicles
wheelwright1281
cartwright14..
wheeler1497
cart-maker1579
coach-wright1587
coach-maker1599
coach-wheeler1686
coach-builder1794
coach-joiner1800
wainwright1855
wagon-wright1858
wheel-assembler1897
auto worker1901
1901 14th Ann. Rep. Board of Mediation & Arbitration State N.Y. 57 In each of the following cases mentioned strikes were seriously threatened to enforce demands made... Auto workers, in New York city, in April, for a new wage scale.
1929 R. W. Dunn Labor & Automobiles iv. 59 The steady machinization..left the ‘typical auto worker’ a mere machine operator.
1997 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 3 June 1 Auto workers want to get their fair share of the enormous profits the auto makers rake in every year.
auto wrecking n. the action or business of dismantling disused motor vehicles, usually in order to reclaim and resell the parts and scrap metal; frequently attributive.
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1904 Los Angeles Sunday Times 18 Dec. v. 14/5 (heading) Auto wrecking a new business.
1936 J. Steinbeck In Dubious Battle 42 The great trash piles of auto-wrecking yards.
2000 D. C. Large Berlin 592 A dingy strip of auto-wrecking shops and recycling centers.
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auton.6
/ˈɔːtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɔdoʊ/, /ˈɑdoʊ/ 1.
a. Firearms. An automatic weapon. Cf. full-auto adj. and n. at full adj., n.2, and adv. Compounds 2c, semi-auto n. and adj. (b) at semi- prefix Additions.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [noun] > type of firearm > repeating or automatic
repeater1838
self-loader1852
automatic1896
autoloader1906
autoloading1906
auto1916
burp gun1945
semi-automatic1964
1916 Fur News Mar. 31/3 The trouble with the auto was that it shot too close for bird shooting.
1936 J. G. Brandon Pawnshop Murder x. 93 What if Mrs. Sheiner acts funny, grabs the auto and yells for the nearest cop to take me for trying to pop it?
1962 R. Cook Crust on its Uppers (1964) xii One .32 Walther and a 9 mm. Parabellum... He picks up the two autos first.
1995 Handguns June 45/1 The original full-power Taurus combat autos were all based on the Beretta 92 design.
2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 8 May a1 The suspects were acting violently..hitting officers with autos, the police said.
b. gen. An automatic device or machine.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > automatic
automatic1870
black box1949
auto1961
1961 D. X. Fenton Electric Eye Still Camera Photogr. v. 58 (caption) Rainy cookout—Kodak Auto 35.
1975 Machinery & Production Engin. 18 June 590 (heading) An effective quality control scheme applied to the use of single-spindle autos.
1991 Metalworking Production Sept. 11 Machinery includes CNC sliding head autos, CNC work centres, cam autos, plugboard autos and manual capstans.
2002 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 26 Nov. (Business section) 23 The machine-shop houses..single-spindle autos.
2. A mode of operation in which a particular function of a piece of equipment is performed automatically rather than manually; the setting which prompts this mode of operation.
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1966 Pop. Sci. Jan. 204/2 If you photograph your wife on a hill against a bright sky, on ‘auto’, the meter..will come up with a reading that will leave your wife's face underexposed.
1975 Mod. Photogr. Jan. 120/3 There's a choice of three f/stops on auto.
1993 What Hi-Fi? Oct. 147 With auto, the deck takes care of motor stopping and starting plus arm lift and return.
1998 Yachts & Yachting 10 July 64/3 We hand steer all the time..we only go on auto when it needs both of us to change sails.
2001 N.Y. Times 31 May a26/3 Automatic drivers too often put more than their shifting on auto, they put their minds on auto as well.
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autoadj.
/ˈɔːtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɔdoʊ/, /ˈɑdoʊ/ 1. Of a device, function, etc.: that operates automatically, without manual intervention. Frequently in fully auto.
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1903 Trans. Inst. Engineers & Shipbuilding Scotl. 46 251 Set used on fully-auto. screw machine.
1966 Life 9 Dec. r4/3 (advt.) Westinghouse automatic electric blanket, completely washable, fully auto. control.
1995 Farmers Weekly 31 Mar. 131/1 (advt.) The unit currently comprises a fully auto abreast parlour, loose housing and forage box feeding.
2009 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 21 Nov. (Entertainment section) 10 The sDrive35i comes equipped with BMW's dual-clutch transmission, which promises (and delivers) lightning-fast changes, whether in auto mode or manual.
2. Firearms. = automatic adj. 2c.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [adjective] > repeating or automatic
repeating1736
six-shooting1858
automatic1877
auto1906
semi-automatic1911
1906 Western Field 9 (Advertising section) p. xxi/2 Mrs. Topperwein broke a piece of coal with the .22 Auto. rifle.
1916 Fur News Jan. 55/1 The Remington Auto-loading Rifle has the sweetest trigger pull of any high-power gun I have ever used, either auto or hand functioned.
1991 Soldier of Fortune Dec. 21/3 The 10mm Auto version operates by means of a gas piston.
2003 Backwoods Home Mag. Jan.–Feb. 80/2 There are very few autopistols suitable for left-handed use.
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autov.
/ˈɔːtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɔdoʊ/, /ˈɑdoʊ/ U.S. Now archaic and historical.
intransitive. To travel or ride in an automobile or car; to drive. Cf. motor v.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > ride in a wheeled vehicle > in a motor car
mote1883
motor1895
auto1903
automobile1924
1903 Logansport (Indiana) Jrnl. 2 Apr. 8/6 New York's greatest daredevil, the millionaire Elliott Zborowski was killed Wednesday while autoing in Nice.
1919 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. 110 Auto is almost unknown [in England], and with it the verb to auto.
1940 M. M. Bryant & J. R. Aiken Psychol. of Eng. 84 We plan to auto through the mountains.
2004 P. Wallenstein Blue Laws & Black Codes i. 35 Had he and Edith ‘autoed’ out of town in the 1990s and crested the Blue Ridge on Interstate 64, he might have written ‘simply magnificent—lovely afternoon’.
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