motorcade

Blend of motor +‎ cavalcade.

• IPA^(key): /ˌməʊtə(ɹ)ˈkeɪd/, /ˈməʊtə(ɹ)ˌkeɪd/

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motorcade (plural motorcades)

1. A procession of cars carrying VIPs, especially political figures.

   JFK was assassinated in a motorcade.

   • 1994, Herbert L. Abrams, The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 126:

     The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade.

motorcade (third-person singular simple present motorcades, present participle motorcading, simple past and past participle motorcaded)

1. (intransitive) To travel in a motorcade.
   • 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 147:

     We then motorcaded to our hotel to change into formal wear […]

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