stock car

noun

1. a standard model of automobile changed in various ways for racing purposes.
2. Also called cattle car. Railroads. a boxcar for carrying livestock.

stock car

noun

1. 1. a car, usually a production saloon, strengthened and modified for a form of racing in which the cars often collide
   2. ( as modifier )

      stock-car racing

2. a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)cattle truck

Other Words From

• stock-car adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of stock car¹

1855–60, Americanism stock car fordef 2

Example Sentences

They must have been harnessed up together beforehand in a stock car somewhere.

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It was true: the passengers of the Oklahoma were crowded like cattle on a Kansas stock-car.

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We are running a stock car against some heavy foreign racing machines; the chance of winning is slight.

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A freight locomotive and an empty stock car rolled out of the siding, and we took our places therein, men and horses together.

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He was thrown into a stock car, without a bed or blanket, and hauled over the rough, jolting road to Andersonville.

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