"daily drive" meaning in English

See daily drive in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: daily drives [present, singular, third-person], daily driving [participle, present], daily drove [past], daily driven [participle, past]
Etymology: Back-formation from daily driver. Etymology templates: {{backform|en|daily driver}} Back-formation from daily driver Head templates: {{en-verb|daily drive<,,drove,driven>}} daily drive (third-person singular simple present daily drives, present participle daily driving, simple past daily drove, past participle daily driven)
  1. (transitive, colloquial) To use (a car or other device) as one's daily driver. Tags: colloquial, transitive
    Sense id: en-daily_drive-en-verb-3CrE4ED2 Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for daily drive meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "daily driver"
      },
      "expansion": "Back-formation from daily driver",
      "name": "backform"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from daily driver.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "daily drives",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "daily driving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "daily drove",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "daily driven",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "daily drive<,,drove,driven>"
      },
      "expansion": "daily drive (third-person singular simple present daily drives, present participle daily driving, simple past daily drove, past participle daily driven)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English back-formations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 May 8, u/ItsRogueRen, “Google Android 13 will further restrict sideloading app permissions”, in Reddit, r/degoogle, archived from the original on 2023-12-20",
          "text": "This is why I'm hoping Linux phones can become a viable option soon. Right now its a cool tinkering toy but not really good enough to daily drive",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To use (a car or other device) as one's daily driver."
      ],
      "id": "en-daily_drive-en-verb-3CrE4ED2",
      "links": [
        [
          "car",
          "car#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "device",
          "device#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "daily driver",
          "daily driver#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, colloquial) To use (a car or other device) as one's daily driver."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "daily drive"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "daily driver"
      },
      "expansion": "Back-formation from daily driver",
      "name": "backform"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from daily driver.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "daily drives",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "daily driving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "daily drove",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "daily driven",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "daily drive<,,drove,driven>"
      },
      "expansion": "daily drive (third-person singular simple present daily drives, present participle daily driving, simple past daily drove, past participle daily driven)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English back-formations",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 May 8, u/ItsRogueRen, “Google Android 13 will further restrict sideloading app permissions”, in Reddit, r/degoogle, archived from the original on 2023-12-20",
          "text": "This is why I'm hoping Linux phones can become a viable option soon. Right now its a cool tinkering toy but not really good enough to daily drive",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To use (a car or other device) as one's daily driver."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "car",
          "car#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "device",
          "device#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "daily driver",
          "daily driver#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, colloquial) To use (a car or other device) as one's daily driver."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "daily drive"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.