hot rod
See also: hotrod
English
Alternative forms
- hotrod
- hot-rod
Etymology
Attested since 1945 in American English, specifically meaning ‘hunk of metal’.[1]
Noun
hot rod (plural hot rods)
- 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.
- 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club:
- 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.
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- (sexuality, slang) Synonym of penis
Synonyms
- penis [WS]
- racer
- rod (definition #15)
- speedster
Derived terms
- hot rodder
- hot-rodder
- hotrodder
- hot rodding
- hot-rodding
- hotrodding
Verb
hot rod (third-person singular simple present hot rods, present participle hot roding, simple past and past participle hot roded) or hotrod (slang)
- A colloquialism and slang term used to refer to the act of modifying 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
- customize
- modify
- alter
Derived terms
- hot rodded
- hot rodding
- hotrodded
- hotrodding
See also
- customize
See also
- custom car
- gasser
- pro street
- street machine
- street rod
- T bucket
References
- “hot rod” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.