high-center

present singular third person high-centers · participle present high-centering · participle past high-centered · past high-centered

1. transitiveTo cause (a vehicle) to become stranded with all wheels off the ground.

   I had to be careful driving toward the river so I wouldn't high-center the car on a boulder and break the crankcase.

   2009, Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, →ISBN, page 83

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   What does he think, that we're setting him up, that he'll ease his truck along the dirt road, high-center it in a rut, and then get jumped and die defending his pizzas?

   2010, Darrell Spencer, CAUTION Men in Trees, →ISBN, page 113

   For example, positive obstacles such as fallen trees directly along the prescribed path would high-center the vehicle and negative obstacles such as culverts near certain intersections in the Urban course went undetected and became hazards for the XUV.

   2006, Raj Madhavan, Elena R. Messina, James Sacra Albus, Intelligent Vehicle Systems: A 4D/RCS Approach, →ISBN, page 274

2. intransitiveTo become stranded with all wheels off the ground.