stock car
a standard model of automobile changed in various ways for racing purposes.
Also called cattle car. Railroads. a boxcar for carrying livestock.
Origin of stock car
1Other words from stock car
- stock-car, adjective
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How to use stock car in a sentence
As I found out in 2018, stock car racing is no place for luddites.
NASCAR ditches decades of tradition for its Next Gen race car | Jonathan M. Gitlin | May 6, 2021 | Ars TechnicaThere were times in a stock car, because it’s so hot inside of the car, the oil and water pipes run right underneath the seat.
Danica Patrick on Why She Never Loved Racing and Her Post-Track Career | Joshua Eferighe | January 30, 2021 | OzyThey must have been harnessed up together beforehand in a stock car somewhere.
Back Home | Irvin S. CobbIt was true: the passengers of the Oklahoma were crowded like cattle on a Kansas stock-car.
The Magnetic North | Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)We are running a stock car against some heavy foreign racing machines; the chance of winning is slight.
The Flying Mercury | Eleanor M. Ingram
A freight locomotive and an empty stock car rolled out of the siding, and we took our places therein, men and horses together.
The Mistress of Bonaventure | Harold BindlossHe was thrown into a stock car, without a bed or blanket, and hauled over the rough, jolting road to Andersonville.
Andersonville, Volume 2 | John McElroy
British Dictionary definitions for stock car
a car, usually a production saloon, strengthened and modified for a form of racing in which the cars often collide
(as modifier): stock-car racing
US and Canadian a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock: Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): cattle truck
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