lowrider
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.99 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A vehicle, usually a passenger car, with its suspension system modified so that it rides as low to level ground as possible without dragging.
noun
Attributive form of lowriders.
noun
Used to describe a dog known for its short legs (e.g. a dachshund, corgi, basset hound, etc.)
Informal
Example Sentences
- "The first lowriders were rounded models from the 1930s and 40s."
- "Cecily was dressed as a pile of laundry—wide-legged lowrider pants that she wore down on her hips, layers of shirts, her face dusted with what looked like particles of silver."
- "Another young woman walked past us, wearing tight lowrider trousers and a cropped T-shirt that stopped several inches shy of the trousers."
- "Behind them stood a woman in a pants suit with a poodle on a leash and a couple of teenage girls in lowrider jeans with iPods and earphones that were currently slung around their necks so they could murmur together—earnestly, no giggles."