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Definition of garage

noun

  • 1a building for housing a motor vehicle or vehicles: a detached house with an integral garage a bus garage
  • an establishment which sells fuel or which repairs and sells motor vehicles.
  • 2 (also garage rock) [mass noun] a style of unpolished, energetic rock music associated with suburban amateur bands: [as modifier]:a garage band
    [from the idea of amateur bands practising in garages]
  • 3 (also UK garage) [mass noun] a form of dance music incorporating elements of drum and bass, house music, and soul, characterized by a rhythm in which the second and fourth beats of the bar are omitted.
    [from Paradise Garage, the name of a Manhattan dance club]

verb

[with object]
  • put or keep (a motor vehicle) in a garage: the car needn’t be garaged in the winter

Derivatives

garaging

noun

Origin:

early 20th century: from French, from garer 'to shelter'

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