lowrider
Americannoun
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lowriders
plural
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an individually decorated and customized car fitted with hydraulic jacks that permit lowering of the chassis nearly to the road.
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a person, often a teenager, who owns and drives such a car.
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Origin of lowrider
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Vera, who was born and raised in northeast Los Angeles, grew up watching her dad and cousins fixing up their cars in the lowrider scene of 1990s Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
I think of a lowrider as a certain class of car with custom paint, 13-inch wheels, hydraulics…It’s your own little art piece on wheels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
My dad was the first person that I knew who had a lowrider, and my husband motivated me to get my own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
Lines of folklorico dancers, norteño musicians and lowrider bikers normally burst with cultural pride at the Milpas Street Holiday Parade on Santa Barbara’s Eastside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2025
There’s a lowrider that’s painted to look like a box of Froot Loops, and a truck on some of the biggest rims I’ve ever seen in my life.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
A display of lowriders greeted us alongside a massive mural of iconic scenes from the film “Friday,” including Cube and Chris Tucker’s legendary “Dammnnnn” moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
I grew up around lowriders, and I’ve always admired the lifestyle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
Early in your career, you were known for shooting gang life, prisons, lowriders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
Each brand does little more than offer quick thrills to fans while taking their money, yet both have turned into markers of latinidad in Southern California à la lowriders and guayaberas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2025
In those days, Fifty-Third Street was a hub of late-night activity, a thoroughfare for cruising lowriders with unmuffled tailpipes.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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