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In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wiktionary, the free dictionary See also: hotrod

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:hot rodWikipedia

Alternative forms

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• hotrod, hot-rod

Etymology

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Attested since 1945 in American English, specifically meaning ‘hunk of metal’.[1]

Pronunciation

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• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

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hot rod (plural hot rods)

1. 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. Synonyms: racer, rod, speedster
   • 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club‎[1]: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.
2. (sexuality, slang) The penis. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

Derived terms

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• hotrodder
• hotrodding

Verb

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hot rod (third-person singular simple present hot rods, present participle hot rodding, simple past and past participle hot rodded)

1. (colloquial, slang) To modify a vehicle for enhanced driving performance, top speed, and/or to accelerate faster. Are you going to hot rod [the vehicle] or leave it stock?

Synonyms

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• customize
• modify
• alter

Derived terms

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• hot rodded
• hot rodding
• hotrodded
• hotrodding

See also

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• customize

See also

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• custom car
• gasser
• pro street
• street machine
• street rod
• T bucket

References

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1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “hot rod”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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