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dragster

US/ˈdɹæɡstɚ/

dragster noun: a heavily modified or custom-built vehicle used in drag racing.

dragster: a heavily modified or custom-built vehicle used in drag racing
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Noun

dragster (plural dragsters)

  1. A heavily modified or custom-built vehicle used in drag racing.
    • On a raceway near Riverside, California, a dragger was fatally injured when his dragster went out of control […]1962, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 235, page 10
    • In 1960, Honolulu motorcycle racer (and Street Roadster dragger) Danny Ongais stepped up to the dragster ranks […]2016, Scotty Gosson, Lost Drag Strips II: More Ghosts of Quarter-Miles Past, page 63
  2. One who takes part in drag racing.
    Synonyms:
    dragger
  3. (slang) A drag queen.
    • Dragsters Justin Bond and Jackie Beat kick up their own New York "holigay" spirit1999, The Advocate, number 801, page 57

dragster meaning in Tamil

dragster in Tamil

இழுவைப்பரி

Synonyms of dragster

Forms of dragster

pluraldragsters

Origin of dragster

Derived from drag + -ster.

Questions about dragster

What does dragster mean?
Dragster means a heavily modified or custom-built vehicle used in drag racing.
What is dragster in Tamil?
Dragster in Tamil is இழுவைப்பரி. See Dragster meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dragster?
Dragster is a noun.
How do you pronounce dragster?
Dragster is pronounced /ˈdɹæɡstɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of dragster?
The plural of dragster is dragsters.

Words near dragster in the dictionary

  1. drags up
  2. dragsman
  3. dragsmen
  4. dragsona
  5. dragsonas
  6. dragster
  7. dragsters
  8. dragstrip
  9. dragstrips
  10. dragsville
  11. Dragteng

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dragster (page history and authors); dragster (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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