NUMTOTとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Acronym of New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens, a Facebook group popular with young urbanists.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈnʌmtɑt/

名詞

NUMTOT (plural NUMTOTs)

1. (chiefly Internet slang) A young pro-public transit urbanist, particularly one with left-wing or progressive views.
   • 2018 July 5, Elle Hunt, “Meet the Numtots: the millennials who find fixing public transport sexy”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 11 April 2021:

     The air is clean (because the buses are electric), and the living is easy. This is the future the Numtots want. […] “Yeah sex is cool, but have you ever fantasised about an infrastructure renewal program funded by the taxes of billionaires?” is a representative Numtot fantasy.

   • 2021 May 11, Annie Rauwerda, “Billy Magic and the internet’s unabashed enthusiasm for public transit”, in The Michigan Daily‎, archived from the original on 6 December 2022:

     I became a NUMTOT (pressed “join” on a Facebook group) around the time I first watched The Michigan Transportation Musical at orientation. […] Both NUMTOT and the Michigan Transportation musical build an online cult around the otherwise lame topic of transit.

   • 2025 June 30, Hannah McCann, Eloise Faichney, Rebecca Trelease, Emma Whatman, Taylor Swift: Culture, Capital, and Critique, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

     Moreover, NUMTOTs are not convinced by the benefits afforded by electric vehicles, which extend the environmental and social inequities already inherent in (internal combustion engine) private vehicle ownership and demand mining of lithium, often with devastating social and environmental implications.