lowrider
Americannoun
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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.
Etymology
Origin of lowrider
Example Sentences
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Vendor booths replaced vinyl racks, some selling miniature lowrider replicas and Chicano-inspired artwork.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
Earlier in 2025, the My Ride column featured Sandy Avila, a construction company office administration manager living in Pasadena, Calif., and her 1966 Chevrolet Impala SS lowrider that she named Highly Favored.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
Sandy Avila, a 42-year-old construction company office administration manager living in Pasadena, Calif., on her 1966 Chevrolet Impala SS lowrider, as told to A.J.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
More disarming is the car culture room, where high art and lowrider productively collide.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 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
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