lowrider
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- noun
- /ˈloʊˌraɪdər/
- US
- Danny stood there on the screen in front of his pride and joy, the lowrider that caused the big trouble with Tony Medina.
- lowrider car
- lowrider car shows
Examples
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He spent all summer working on his lowrider, adding unique paint and hydraulic features.
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Many nice show cars, hot rods, lowriders, motorcycles, and even bicycles come out of California—meaning there are great body shops.
Blog text (21) -
Finally, he asked Danny how much his lowrider was worth.
Fiction book (1995) -
A young man with a lowrider car that bounces up and down.
Blog text (33) -
And the best part, people from all over are paying me to paint their lowriders.
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And if you like your cars old, slow and restored, the annual lowrider competition at Elysian Park is in three weeks.
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He stood by the sloping trunk of the lowrider and stretched out his arm to point.
Fiction book (1995) -
Most journalistic treatments have tended to focus on the spectacle of the lowrider automobile.
Academic text (1990) -
I've been schooling these fools on lowriders.
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Then we got stuck between a cruiser, Highway Patrol, and a '65 Impala lowrider, candy apple red with a twelve-foot antenna that flew the Jolly Roger.
Fiction book (1990)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lowrider comes from the two simple parts low ('near the ground') and rider ('one who rides'). It began in U.S. Mexican-American car culture where people lowered cars on purpose, so a lowrider is a car made to 'ride' very low to the ground.