hot rod
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Typically a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster. The term may be used generically to apply to any car, truck, or motorcycle (et al.) modified for increased speed and/or performance. It may also be used to specifically describe and refer to modified cars from the original (or traditional) era of "hot rods", post World War II and prior to 1960.
verb
To modify a vehicle for enhanced driving performance, top speed, and/or to accelerate faster.
Colloquial; Slang
Example Sentences
- "Miller famously tried to use as little CGI as possible in Fury Road. Instead, he got people to make the freaky, impossible cars he’d envisioned—the spike-covered scavenger-mobiles, the monster-truck hot rod, the enormous War Rig that really serves as a main character in itself—into functional vehicles."
- "Are you going to hot rod [the vehicle] or leave it stock?"