hot rod

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Typically a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster. The term may be used generically to apply to any car, truck, or motorcycle (et al.) modified for increased speed and/or performance. It may also be used to specifically describe and refer to modified cars from the original (or traditional) era of "hot rods", post World War II and prior to 1960.
    — Miller famously tried to use as little CGI as possible in Fury Road. Instead, he got people to make the freaky, impossible cars he’d envisioned—the spike-covered scavenger-mobiles, the monster-truck hot rod, the enormous War Rig that really serves as a main character in itself—into functional vehicles.
  2. The penis. slang
动词 v.
  1. To modify a vehicle for enhanced driving performance, top speed, and/or to accelerate faster. colloquial,slang
    — Are you going to hot rod [the vehicle] or leave it stock?

词形变化

hot rods plural hotrod alternative hot-rod alternative hot rods present,singular,third-person hot rodding participle,present hot rodded participle,past hot rodded past hotrod alternative hot-rod alternative

词源

词源 1
Attested since 1945 in American English, specifically meaning ‘hunk of metal’.
词源 2
Attested since 1945 in American English, specifically meaning ‘hunk of metal’.
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