Lexus

English

Etymology

An invented word developed circa 1987 by Team One as the marketing team for the brand; said to have no specific meaning but to be euphonious and to evoke a luxurious and technological image (not unusual among car model name origins); for more, see Wikipedia at Lexus § History.

Proper noun

Lexus (uncountable)

  1. A brand of high-end motor vehicle from the Toyota Motor Corporation.
    Coordinate term: Toyota

Noun

Lexus (plural Lexuses)

  1. An automobile of this marque. Often used as an example of a luxury car or luxuriousness in general.
    Coordinate terms: (luxury car, luxuriousness) Cadillac, Buick, Chrysler (dated)
    the Lexus of [product category]
    the Lexus of microwave ovens
    She cryin poor mouth but she pull up in a brand new Lexus? Who fallin for that?
    a parking lot full of Cadillacs, Lexuses, and BMWs
    • 2014 February 28, Joseph Berger, “Fast Acquittal for Kennedy, Whose Name Put Prosecutors in Bind”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 August 2022:
      The four-and-one-half-day trial was centered on acts that neither she nor prosecutors dispute: On July 13, 2012, she drove her Lexus S.U.V. erratically after swallowing Zolpidem, a generic form of the sleep medication Ambien.

Derived terms

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