car bed

noun

1. a small, legless, basketlike portable bed for an infant, especially for use in a car.

Word History and Origins

Origin of car bed¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

He and his friends took turns destroying the plastic sports car bed frame in the final hours of the livestream.

From BBC

Nestled in his race car bed with a blanket over his face and something new playing in the bottom corner of his screen, Ahgren exuded exhaustion.

From The Verge

He’s spent a lot of time in that spot lately — in fact, he’s broadcast dozens of hours of himself curled up in a bright red race car bed since his stream first started.

From The Verge

When he was nine, he wandered off at the Ikea showroom and decided to nap in a race car bed, in an attempt to become a permanent resident of the store—and I had to track him down before Mom and Dad found out and called in the national guard.

From Literature

“There you go, Garrett,” Alyssa says, “didn’t you always want a car bed?”

From Literature