hot-rod
- n a car modified to increase its speed and acceleration
- The nameplate is a hot-rod icon; prior models were prized for their turbocharged engines and bargain prices.
- MANNERS MORALS West Coast hot-rod fiends have been making pedestrians leap like kangeroos ever since some nameless hot-rodder rigged a sparkplug in his exhaust pipe and.
- The current iteration, the M400, is painted hot-rod red and shaped like a miniature fighter plane.