stock car

1. 1.

   a car kept in dealers' stock for regular sales

   Broadercar
2. 2.

   a racing car with the basic chassis of a commercially available car

   Broaderracer

Questions about stock car

What does stock car mean?

stock car means "a car kept in dealers' stock for regular sales". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is stock car a common word?

stock car 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.