car-house

car-house (plural car-houses)

1. A garage or a building for a car, typically separate from a house.
   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     Jem picked up a rock and threw it jubilantly at the car-house

• housecar