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🛸 A floating car 🚗 A toy vehicle
hovercar

hovercar

7.5
A small toy car that floats a little above the floor for play
  • noun
  • /ˈhʌvərˌkɑr/
: coche flotante
  • The children raced a hovercar across the living room, amazed by how it glided above the floor.

Examples

  • At the science fair, a student demonstrated a homemade hovercar that floated on a cushion of air.

  • He received a remote-controlled hovercar for his birthday and played with it all afternoon.

  • The hovercar is really cool!

  • Did you see that hovercar fly by?

  • The children raced a hovercar across the living room, amazed by how it glided above the floor.

  • At the science fair, a student demonstrated a homemade hovercar that floated on a cushion of air.

  • He received a remote-controlled hovercar for his birthday and played with it all afternoon.

Surface Forms

hovercar singular
hovercars plural

Morphology

hovercar = hover + car (transparent) = hover + car

Direct compound of 'hover' + 'car' — a car that hovers; the toy/model sense is a straightforward instantiation of that meaning.

Etymology

Hovercar comes from the word hover, which means 'stay in the air', and car, which means 'vehicle' or a small toy 'car'. A helpful image is a little car that floats just above the floor, which is why we use hovercar for a small toy that glides over a surface.