Cadillac

[kad-l-ak; for 1 also Fr. ka-dee-yak]

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An·toine de la Mothe

[ahn-twan duh la mawt] , 1657?–1730, French colonial governor in North America: founder of Detroit.

a city in NW Michigan. 10,199.

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Cadillac

Cadillac Automobile Company, established in 1902 by Detroit engine-maker Henry Martyn Leland and named for Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658-1730), Fr. minor aristocrat and colonial governor who founded Detroit in 1701.

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Cadillac definition

[ˈkædlææk]

n.
the name of something powerful or superior. (From the name of the automobile.) : Acme is the Cadillac of monochrome closed-circuit retail surveillance equipment.
n.
a powerful drug, especially cocaine. (Drugs.) : Just a pinch of Cadillac in my junk seems to keep me a little more lively.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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"If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population."

-Herbert Marcuse

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