hot-rod

1. 1.

   a car modified to increase its speed and acceleration

   Synonymshot rod

   Broadercar

Questions about hot-rod

What does hot-rod mean?

hot-rod means "a car modified to increase its speed and acceleration".

How many syllables are in hot-rod?

hot-rod has 2 syllables: ho-t-rod. The stress falls on "ho".

What is another word for hot-rod?

Close synonyms include hot rod. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hot-rod a common word?

hot-rod is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.