carpool

[ kahr-pool ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Also carpooling, car pooling. an arrangement among a group of automobile owners by which each owner in turn drives the others or their children to and from a designated place.
those included in such an arrangement.

carpool

/ ˈkɑːˌpuːl /

Origin of carpool¹

First recorded in 1940–45; car ¹ + pool ²

With Emma and maybe some other kids, and they have to drive carpool.

Tuesdays and Thursdays I teach; Fridays I drive my 8-year-old daughter's carpool.

When it is done it will be the longest continuous carpool lane in the country, if not the world.

Once it is finished, the 70-mile carpool lane will stretch from Orange County to the San Fernando Valley.

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