sport utility vehicle

English

Etymology

Extant since the 1970s in the technical usage of the auto industry, where at the time it sometimes included a virgule as sport/utility vehicle; in common use among the general public since the early 1990s, when this class of vehicles first became widely popular as an alternative to station wagons and minivans.

Noun

sport utility vehicle (plural sport utility vehicles)

  2. A passenger vehicle which combines the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan or station wagon together with on- or off-road ability.
    Alternative forms: SUV, S.U.V.
    Hypernyms: automobile < motor vehicle < vehicle
    Coordinate terms: CUV, XUV, EUV; minivan, station wagon, estate car, estate; car, truck, lorry, van; UTV, SxS, side-by-side; ATV, all-terrain vehicle

Derived terms

  • SUV (initialism)

Translations

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