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Definition of Hot rod
1. Noun. A car modified to increase its speed and acceleration.
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
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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