Meanings
nounhypercar (plural hypercars)
plural hypercars
- A supercar with such extreme performance and expense as to have exclusiveness even when compared with most other supercars.
It’s one of fastest accelerating vehicles on the market today — at about $130,000, it is said to have the acceleration normally found in multimillion-dollar hypercars.
2022 April 28, Farhad Manjoo, “Is Elon Musk Really That Bad?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Hellenic*hupér
- Ancient Greekῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
- Ancient Greekῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)
- Englishhyper-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱers-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱr̥sós
- Proto-Celtic*karros
- Gaulish*karros
- Latincarrus
- Anglo-Normancarre
- Middle Englishcarre
- Englishcar
- Englishhypercar
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Cite this entry
APA
hypercar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypercar
MLA
“hypercar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypercar. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hypercar,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypercar.
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