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Autocide

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Autocide
The use of a motor vehicle in any form to commit suicide, either by carbon monoxide—passing a hose from the exhaust (tail) pipe into the car, or leaving the engine run in a closed garage—or driving it at high speed into large stationary object—e.g., into a wall—or off a cliff


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3) An additional group is discussed, namely that where the blend looks as if it is "analysable in terms of other word-formation processes, in particular as a neo-classical compound" (1983: 236), for example, autocide (automobile x suicide).
 
 
 
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