street race

noun

An instance of street racing; a competitive race between cars driving on public roads rather than a race track.

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Meanings

nounstreet race (plural street races)

plural street races

  1. hobbiesAn instance of street racing; a competitive race between cars driving on public roads rather than a race track.
verbstreet race (third-person singular simple present street races, present participle street racing, simple past and past participle street raced)

present singular third person street races · participle present street racing · participle past street raced · past street raced · alternative street-race

  1. To race in a street race.

    I’d spent a big chunk of my paychecks on my car and loved to street race.

    2009, James B. Bergstad, Screwing the Pooch, published 2013, →ISBN, page 71
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    His argument was that the brotherhood didn’t really want to street race but did want all-night drag strips which the curfew laws prohibited.

    1991, H. F. Moorhouse, Driving Ambitions: An Analysis of the American Hot Rod Enthusiasm, Manchester; New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 194

    Luckily, she didn’t him, but what were the odds that he would be coming in the other direction at that very moment? That was the last time she street raced.

    2013, Shirley Muldowney, Bill Stephens, Tales from a Top-Fuel Dragster: A Collection of the Greatest Drag Racing Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, →ISBN
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APA

street race. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/street%20race

MLA

“street race.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/street%20race. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “street race,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/street%20race.

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