vehicular

[vee-hik-yuh-ler]

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adjective

of, relating to, or for vehicles: a vehicular tunnel.
serving as a vehicle.
caused by a vehicle; attributed or attributable to vehicles: vehicular homicide.

carried on or transported by means of a vehicle: vehicular recording units.

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Origin of vehicular

From the Late Latin word vehiculāris, dating back to 1610–20. See vehicle, -ar¹

Related formsnon·ve·hic·u·lar, adjective

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Examples from the Web for vehicular

Contemporary Examples

They employ an individual that not only has a serious drug problem; he was convicted of vehicular manslaughter.
The NFL’s Mindless Misogyny: Why Was Ray Rice Given a Slap on the Wrist for Beating His Fiancée?
Robert Silverman
July 25, 2014
And the laws closing those few wild areas to motor vehicle or ATV use: Most public lands are far too open to vehicular use.
The Idea of Public Land Means Nothing to Utah County Commissioner
Doug Peacock
May 6, 2014
An infographic released by Sohu Business points to the obvious culprits: industrial emissions, coal, and vehicular exhaust.
The Chinese Can’t Catch Their Breath
Brendon Hong
May 5, 2014
Turning 16 caused our parents to break out in a rash of vehicular insipidity.
P.J. O’Rourke on Grabbing the Keys to Happiness
P. J. O’Rourke
January 24, 2014
Brent has been charged with vehicular manslaughter and a DUI, his second.
Jovan Belcher, Josh Brent, and NFL Players’ Self-Inflicted Tragedies
Pat O'Brien
December 14, 2012

Historical Examples

But O'Neill's tidings of the vehicular lad knocked them all from his mind.
V. V.'s Eyes
Henry Sydnor Harrison
He mounted the seat, on his first essay alone, with the jauntiness becoming a master of vehicular propulsion.
The Wrong Twin
Harry Leon Wilson
There sprang up an unreasoning senseless hostility to any substitute for the horse as the agent of vehicular traffic.
Automobile Biographies
Lyman Horace Weeks
Here the vehicular traffic might be expected to become much less dense, and they would be able to make better time.
The Boy Scouts Afoot in France
Herbert Carter
And the vehicular traffic of the street is essentially the high road traffic very roughly adapted to the new needs.
Anticipations
Herbert George Wells

Word Origin and History for vehicular

adj.

1610s, from Late Latin vehicularis, from vehiculum (see vehicle).

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