underboosted

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1. Suffering from underboost.

   Aside from the intake cycle condition described above and when rapidly decelerating the engine, a helicopter power plant can not be seriously underboosted.

   1961, Approach - Volume 6, Issue 8, page 39

2. Underpowered.

   They will have been driven in an overstuffed, underboosted car, to a party somewhere, sometime.

   2013, Daisy Waugh, I Don't Know Why She Bothers, →ISBN

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   The Millenia's steering feels precise and is the most naturally weighted of the three (the Audi's felt overboosted just off center; the Volvo's, underboosted).

   1997, Road & Track - Volume 49, page 96

3. Insufficiently promoted.

   Our symbol of success is Saturn 5; the USSR is now the underboosted one.

   1967, Space/aeronautics - Volume 48, page 20

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   In the publishing industry, however, most of the product goes un- or underadvertised, and even books that publishing people consider to be heavily pushed are ridiculously underboosted by the standards of most other business enterprises.

   1990, Richard Curtis, Beyond the bestseller, →ISBN