Definition of Hot rod

1. Noun. A car modified to increase its speed and acceleration.

Exact synonyms: Hot-rod
Generic synonyms: Auto, Automobile, Car, Machine, Motorcar

Definition of Hot rod

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Verb. A colloquialism and slang term used to refer to the act of modifying a vehicle for enhanced driving performance, top speed, and/or to accelerate faster. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hot Rod

hot pad
hot panted
hot pants
hot pepper
hot pink
hot pint
hot plate
hot pot
hot potato
hot potatoes
hot pots
hot press
hot presses
hot property
hot pursuit
hot rod
hot rodder
hot rods
hot salt steriliser
hot sauce
hot sauces
hot saw
hot saws
hot seal
hot seals
hot seat
hot seats
hot set
hot sheet
hot sheets

Literary usage of Hot rod

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Marine Steam Engine by Richard Sennett (1899)
"When the rod is much heated—that is, a hot rod—the gland should be slacked as ... Never put the water service on a hot rod, as it is seldom heated uniformly ..."

2. Elements of Physics: Or, Natural Philosophy, General and Medical ; Explained by Neil Arnott (1829)
"A red-hot rod of iron drawn along a pane of glass will divide it almost like a diamond knife. Even cast-iron, as backs of grates, iron pots, &c., ..."

3. Engine-room Practice: A Handbook for the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine by John G. Liversidge (1906)
"The hose must on no account be played upon a hot rod; the effect will be to cause ... If a really hot rod is suddenly discovered the engines must be eased. ..."

4. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1904)
"By means of a hot rod an opening is burned into the end of the sac, aud through this the contents are removed by means of a drawn-out tube pipette. ..."

5. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1817)
"The hot rod, after having been negative in cold mercury, is still susceptible of passing into the positive state when heated to a higher temperature. 5. ..."

6. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1817)
"The hot rod, after having been negative in cold mercury, ... When the hot rod is decidedly negative in the mercury, if we keep it a long time in that degree ..."

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