lowrider

[loh-rahy-der]

noun

1. an individually decorated and customized car fitted with hydraulic jacks that permit lowering of the chassis nearly to the road.

2. a person, often a teenager, who owns and drives such a car.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lowrider¹

First recorded in 1975–80; low ¹ + rider

Example Sentences

It features a lowrider funeral in San Bernardino and a nurse who sings like Mary Wells.

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Our first event was the “California Love” photography and lowrider show at Milk Studios in 2016, where the lo-lo’s were dramatically lit as if they had descended from heaven, combined with the best of Estevan’s L.A. images.

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I was part of the lowrider culture before I was part of the photography world, so I was showing what I was around earlier on, which was hip-hop and lowriding.

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SO: The thing that you told me last week that still really resonates with me is when you were going through the thousands of submissions from the open call for the big Superchief gallery photo show earlier this year, and you were like, “I never wanna do another photo of a lowrider or a guy holding a gun again.”

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Salsa music blared over the speakers as a few stragglers took their seats and others admired artwork on the walls, including a fine-line David Lynch drawing, a ceramic Garfield and a depiction of a lowrider’s paint job.

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