hot rod

See also: hotrod

English

Alternative forms

• hotrod, hot-rod

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

• hotrodder
• hotrodding

Verb

hot rod (third-person singular simple present hot rods, present participle hot roding, simple past and past participle hot roded)

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

• 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