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".

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 "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.