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street race en · NOUN

Meanings

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

Forms

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street races Number=Plur lexicographic

street race en · VERB

Meanings

  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:
    • 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:

Forms

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street races Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
street racing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
street-race alternative lexicographic
street raced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
street raced Tense=Past lexicographic