Dormobile

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A campervan.

    "The children were supposed to be asleep in various trailers, caravans and dormobiles scattered about the yard, but deep into the night we could hear the sounds of giggling and scampering as they decamped from one vehicle to the next[…]"

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"The children were supposed to be asleep in various trailers, caravans and dormobiles scattered about the yard, but deep into the night we could hear the sounds of giggling and scampering as they decamped from one vehicle to the next[…]"

Etymology

After the Bedford Dormobile, a 1960s campervan, presumably from dormitory + -mobile.

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