noun
prepaid highway toll card
A wasei-eigo term for a prepaid card used to pay expressway tolls in Japan. Now largely obsolete due to the shift to ETC.
wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from highway card
昔はハイウェーカードで高速料金を支払っていた。
In the past, we used to pay expressway tolls with a highway card.
Variant spelling with a middle dot; less common but still seen.
ETCカード is the modern electronic toll collection card that has largely replaced the physical ハイウェーカード.
Wasei-eigo from English 'highway' and 'card'. The term was coined in Japan for a prepaid toll card system.