honda

plural hondas

1. SouthwesternUSA closed loop or eyelet at one end of a lariat or lasso, through which the other end of the rope is passed to form a much larger loop.
2. SouthwesternUSA grommet or other device intended to strengthen or otherwise improve a simple rope honda.

1. A Japanese automotive and motorcycle manufacturer, named after its founder, Soichiro Honda.

   they left on Sonnyʼs seventeenth birthday present — the Honda motorbike heʼd begged them to buy him

   2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 358

2. A brand of car manufactured by Honda.

plural Hondas

1. A car of the Honda brand.

   Hondas sound like cars designed by pacifists and humanitarian diplomats. The Accord, Civic, Insight.

   2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 86

   2 more examples

   Jammed onto a narrow, steep sidewalk, police barricades all around, we march with placards, drums, and angry spirit: "The Moral Majority, cops and Klan. Work together hand in hand." — helmeted tac squad on horses, Hondas, facing us on Powell Street, itching to wield their billy clubs, waiting for any excuse to let fly.

   1984 August 11, Merle Woo, “Revolutionary Optimism—The Order of the Day”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 5

   It’s a little disconcerting to ponder how much of my happy online childhood was spent hanging out virtually with people who were old enough to own Hondas and go on PornHub^([sic]) on purpose (and definitely people old enough to be active on Reddit), but I loved being a Jammer.

   2022 September 30, Miranda Wollen, “Are You There, God? It’s Me, iluvcupcakes29545.”, in Yale Daily News, volume CXLV, number 2, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B4, column 5

2. A motorbike manufactured by Honda.