sport utility

1. 1.

   a high-performance four-wheel drive car built on a truck chassis

   Synonymssport utility vehicleS.U.V.SUV

   Broadercar

Questions about sport utility

What does sport utility mean?

sport utility means "a high-performance four-wheel drive car built on a truck chassis".

What is another word for sport utility?

Close synonyms include sport utility vehicle, S.U.V., SUV. 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 sport utility a common word?

sport utility 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.