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hot rod
1noun
- an automobile specially built or altered for fast acceleration and increased speed.
hot-rod
2[ hot-rod ]
verb (used without object)
- to drive a hot rod.
- to drive very fast.
verb (used with object)
- to drive (a vehicle) very fast.
- to adapt (a vehicle or its engine) for increased speed.
hot rod
noun
- a car with an engine that has been radically modified to produce increased power
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of hot rod1
Origin of hot rod2
Idioms and Phrases
An automobile modified to increase its speed and acceleration, as in Kids love to tinker with cars and try to convert them into hot rods . [Mid-1900s] Also see hopped up .Example Sentences
鈥淲e had a good race car and what keeps me alive is driving this hot rod and all these fans,鈥 Force said.
Although hot rods were made popular in the 1970s because of movies such as 鈥淎merican Graffiti鈥 and muscle cars became a staple on Southern California streets, lowriders were designed to be low and slow.
He started with small, thickly painted works barely 8 inches square, framed in wood as exquisitely polished as the finish on his old hot rods.
Anderson recorded Chandler pushing her walker and jokingly said, 鈥淪low down hot rod.鈥
Southern California remains synonymous with classic and customized cars of yesteryear, from hot rods to lowriders.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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