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antiholiday

adj

Etymology

From anti- + holiday.

  1. inherited from hāliġdæġ — “holy day, Sabbath”
  2. inherited from halyday
  3. prefixed as antiholiday — “anti + holiday”

Definitions

  1. Opposing or taking a negative view of the holiday season.

    • Originally entitled Hellcab Does Christmas and marketed as a hip antiholiday holiday show, Will Kern's incredibly black comedy about a day in the life of a poor beleaguered cab driver was never, strictly speaking, a holiday show.

  2. A holiday celebrated as a form of opposition to normal or regular holidays.

    • The idea was to celebrate Buy Nothing Day, an antiholiday invented by the Vancouver-based Media Foundation in the early 90s that takes place on what's traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year. "

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for antiholiday. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA