Meanings
plural lowriders
- A vehicle, usually a passenger car, with its suspension system modified so that it rides as low to level ground as possible without dragging.
The first lowriders were rounded models from the 1930s and 40s.
2007 November 18, Phil Patton, “Inches Above the Road and in The Mans Face”, in New York Times - slangThe driver or a frequent passenger of such a vehicle.
- attributiveAttributive form of lowriders.
Another young woman walked past us, wearing tight lowrider trousers and a cropped T-shirt that stopped several inches shy of the trousers.
2005, Robert B[rown] Parker, Cold Service (a Spenser novel), Harpenden, Herts: No Exit Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 1302 more examples
Cecily was dressed as a pile of laundry—wide-legged lowrider pants that she wore down on her hips, layers of shirts, her face dusted with what looked like particles of silver.
1999, Jane Vandenburgh, The Physics of Sunset, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 106Behind them stood a woman in a pants suit with a poodle on a leash and a couple of teenage girls in lowrider jeans with iPods and earphones that were currently slung around their necks so they could murmur together—earnestly, no giggles.
2006, Stephen King, Cell, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 4 - informalUsed to describe a dog known for its short legs (e.g. a dachshund, corgi, basset hound, etc.)
Origin
Translations
Russian лоура́йдер
- лоура́йдер (lourájder)automobile
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