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subwayless

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English

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Etymology

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From subway +‎ -less.

Adjective

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subwayless (not comparable)

  1. Without a subway.
    • 1952, LIFE, volume 32, number 1, page 20:
      With an extra-long weekend before Christmas and New Year's Day coming up, the police of motorized, subwayless Los Angeles had learned by experience to expect plenty of wrecked cars and DBs (dead bodies) on their hands.
    • 1970, Henry George News, volume 33, page 67:
      Change is coming faster and faster in our technology, so there isn't a chance in the world that our cities of 1999 will be any more like today's cities than were the autoless, subwayless, skyscraperless, air conditioning-less almost elevatorless cities of 1899.