garage

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
garage /ˈgarɑː(d)ʒ, -ɪdʒ, gəˈrɑːʒ/

▶noun

• 1 a building for housing a motor vehicle or vehicles.

• 2 an establishment which sells fuel or which repairs and sells motor vehicles.

• 3 a style of unpolished energetic rock music. [from the idea of amateur bands practising in garages.]

• 4 (also UK garage) a form of dance music incorporating elements of drum and bass, house music, and soul, characterized by a rhythm in which the second and fourth beats of the bar are omitted.

▶verb put or keep (a motor vehicle) in a garage.

– origin early 20th cent.: from Fr., from garer ‘to shelter’.