Underventilated

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Insufficiently ventilated.

    "But when the Beastie Boys played Central Park SummerStage on Wednesday night, Mike D (a k a Michael Diamond) made a point of complaining, or bragging, about his slow ride uptown on an underventilated A train."

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"But when the Beastie Boys played Central Park SummerStage on Wednesday night, Mike D (a k a Michael Diamond) made a point of complaining, or bragging, about his slow ride uptown on an underventilated A train."

Etymology

From under- + ventilated.

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