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hot rod en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Attested since 1945 in American English, specifically meaning ‘hunk of metal’.

Meanings

  1. Typically a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster. The term may be used generically to apply to any car, truck, or motorcycle (et al.) modified for increased speed and/or performance. It may also be used to specifically describe and refer to modified cars from the original (or traditional) era of "hot rods", post World War II and prior to 1960.
    • Miller famously tried to use as little CGI as possible in Fury Road. Instead, he got people to make the freaky, impossible cars he’d envisioned—the spike-covered scavenger-mobiles, the monster-truck hot rod, the enormous War Rig that really serves as a main character in itself—into functional vehicles. 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club:
  2. (slang) The penis.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
hot-rod alternative lexicographic
hotrod alternative lexicographic
hot rods Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

hotrodder · hotrodding · hot rodding

Synonyms

pego · hog · rod · pee-pee · one-eyed trouser snake · love truncheon · widdler · dong · dipstick · verge · eggplant · plonker · hot rod · snausage · chopper · eel · organ · pike · machine · meat · meat stick · wingwang · meat scepter · thing · willie · hammer · dinkle · dicklet · crank · banana · pistol · baloney pony · trouser monkey · male member · Excalibur · spitstick · schlong · hagfish · tongue · birdie · joystick · wick · rod · love stick · willy · diddle · Jonathan · pillicock · dingle · ying-yang · truncheon · dinger · pingas · tic tac · pisser · doodle · piece · tadger · shlong · colloquial · p-word · John Thomas · boonga · Donkey Kong · racer · Yiddish) · fire hose · custard launcher · wiener · dirk · dingus · virile member · weenie · todger · tube steak · jock · rutter · Master John Goodfellow · donger · kielbasa · sucker · dog bone · manhood · man-meat · old chap · it · jade stalk · stem · johnson · thingy · sausage · choad · short arm · pud · winkle · lingam · tagger · peener · love sausage · dingaling · piece of pork · hairy canary · putz · weeny · speedster · pecker · root · choda · dink · shmekl (q · bird · langer · sex tool · jigger · tallywhacker · swipe · fucker · membrum virile · dingy · hooter · jamoke · wee-wee · phallus · disco stick · rape tool · pink oboe · pink cigar · ding-dong · peter · gun · widgie · schmuck · Percy · diddly · pizzle · toy · dick · weapon · nob · hose · member · whale · pickle · joint · pee-wee · bald-headed hermit · tarse · love wand · magnum · lad · down · prick · stretcher · yard · purple-headed yogurt slinger · dork · pipe · meatstick · chode · trouser snake · meat puppet · fish · ramrod · tool · gherkin · love muscle · skin flute · D · peen · cucumber · hoo-hoo · python · fuckpole · meat rod · dock · pork sword · nature's scythe · cock · bobby · pintle · shaft · cack · ding-a-ling · third leg · penis · tail · winky · unit · jimmy · package · salami · whang · hot dog · piston · snake · corey · old fellow · knob · job · cigar · wang · anaconda

Translations (1)

bg хот род (type of vehicle)

hot rod en · VERB

Pronunciation

Etymology

Attested since 1945 in American English, specifically meaning ‘hunk of metal’.

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, slang) To modify a vehicle for enhanced driving performance, top speed, and/or to accelerate faster.
    • Are you going to hot rod [the vehicle] or leave it stock?

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
hot rodding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hot-rod alternative lexicographic
hot rods Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
hot rodded Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hot rodded Tense=Past lexicographic
hotrod alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

hotrodded · hot rodded · hotrodding · hot rodding

Relateds

gasser · customize · street rod · custom car · pro street · T bucket · rat rod · street machine

Synonyms

alter · customize · modify

Translations (1)

bg тунинго́вам (to modify a vehicle)