mobile igloo
n.— «I even found a google discussion group called, “FU people who don’t clean the snow from their cars.”…LOL! in New England, these are referred to as “mobile igloos.”» —“Learn to Duck: Mobile Igloos and Manolo Blahniks” by Mo Ringey Benigngirl (Northampton, Massachusetts) Dec. 22, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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“(This author is either a pseudonym or is not clearly named in the original source.)”
Not so much; that surely is *this* author’s real name.
“Benigngirl[.com]” is the pseudonym. Or maybe it’s a “MOdonym”. No real innocents have been masked by the use of suit-a-nyms. <-I *did* just make that one up, this very minute. That phrase was found on a discussion group. This author unfortunately cannot claim full responsibility for that term but wishes she could.