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dragster

dragster

3 5.2
A very fast car made to race on a straight track
  • noun
  • /ˈdræɡstər/
translation icon : dragster
  • At the drag racing event, the loud roar of the dragster engines thrilled the crowd.
  • Top Fuel dragster
  • junior dragster
  • Fuel dragster

And back, back in the day, dragsters and Funny Cars, they painted their frames, you know, with Imran, your tough stuff.

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Examples

  • One of those eardrum-shattering fuel dragsters made even more noise than usual last night... out at Edmonton international Speedway.

    Fast Company (1979)

  • The Metric Dragster was the most popular activity of this period, and it still mainly attracted boys.

    Academic text (2010)

  • I had a minor accident in the dragster.

    Fast Company (1979)

  • The explosion and fire destroyed the FastCo top fuel dragster.

    Fast Company (1979)

  • The pint-sized dragster then went on to compete against youngsters more than twice her age and qualified for the UK National Finals.

    Blog text (26)

  • The next time you're racing against a black dragster with German military stickers, red flames, and police lights, that will be me.

    Blog text (28)

  • The dragster accelerated down the track, reaching incredible speeds in just a few seconds.

  • Cannon's dragster is designed specifically for straight-line speed, dominating the drag racing competition.

Synonyms

hot rod
vsdragster
41 4.3

A car people change to go faster and look special

is engineered solely for the fastest straight-line acceleration in drag competitions
racecar
vsdragster
15 2.8

A very fast car built to race on tracks

is specialised for short straight acceleration in drag events, not circuit racing
racer
vsdragster
13 2.8

A fast car built specially to compete on a track

focuses on extreme straight-line acceleration for drag contests rather than general racing
gasser
vsdragster
  • Archaic
1 9.0

A classic car from the 1950s or 1960s changed to race in short straight drag races

is purpose-built for maximum straight-line acceleration in competitive drag events

How Fast

dragster
3 5.2
race car
29 2.7
sports car
50 2.8
sedan
  • US
77 2.4
golf cart
  • US
23 2.3

Surface Forms

dragster singular
dragsters plural

Morphology

dragster = drag (transparent) = drag + ster

Formed by attaching the agent/instrument suffix '-ster' to 'drag' (as in drag racing), yielding a noun for the vehicle used in drag racing.

Etymology

Dragster comes from drag, short for 'drag race' — a very fast race in a straight line, and the ending -ster, a way in English to name a person or thing that does something, like gangster. So a dragster is the car made to do the 'drag' — to go very fast down a straight track.