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go-faster stripe en · NOUN

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1. (UK, humorous) A decorative horizontal stripe on the bodywork of a vehicle, imitating those found on racing cars.
   • Later, on the motorway, a car with go-faster stripes and spoilers overtakes us, horn blaring. 1999, Mark Simpson, It's a Queer World:
   • Rather, when Mrs Lee orders a red GT model with electric windows, a heated driving seat and go-faster stripes... 2003, Clare Morris, Quantitative Approaches in Business Studies:
   • Even the dumbest criminal is likely to look in his rearview at some point, and think, I wonder is that the same '69 Mustang with go-faster stripes […] 2007, John Connolly, The Unquiet:
   • Dad was the owner of a gold Ford Cortina with a black go-faster stripe and a raunchy-sounding engine. 1996 April 13, “Novelist Raffaella Barker remembers her father, the poet”, in The Independent:

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