Caddy

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English

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Etymology

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From Cadillac +‎ -y.

Noun

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Caddy (plural Caddies)

  1. (US, informal) A Cadillac car.
    • 1971, John Updike, Rabbit Redux:
      All those ones live in those great big piecrust mock-Two-door houses with His and Hers Caddies parked out by the hydrangea bushes.
    • 2000, John Sandford [pseudonym; John Roswell Camp], Easy Prey, page 126:
      He's driving a ten-year old[sic] lime-green Caddy with a trunk full of golf clubs and one suitcase. We got a license number.
    • 2003, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River:
      So Dave backed his car in beside the Caddy, his eyes on the side door of the bar, no one having come out for a while.