hot rod

plural hot rods · alternative hotrod · alternative hot-rod

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.

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   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.

   2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club

   Synonyms: racer, rod, speedster

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present singular third person hot rods · participle present hot rodding · participle past hot rodded · past hot rodded · alternative hotrod · alternative hot-rod

1. colloquialslangTo 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