racing car

plural racing cars · alternative racing-car

1. UKautomotiveA race car.

   Like some fine-tuned racing car, it kicks up a lot of its own dust.

   1987 September 14, Jay Cocks, “Music: The Badder They Come”, in Time

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   [A] grey racing car drew up with a grinding of brakes and a sputter of gravel in front of the main entrance of Belpher Castle.

   1919, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 6, in A Damsel in Distress

   He was six when he received his last gift from his father, a battery racing car that fell apart after three days.

   1986, Melvin Dixon, “The Boy with Beer”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 26