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high-center

high-center verb: to cause (a vehicle) to become stranded with all wheels off the ground.

Verb

high-center (third-person singular simple present high-centers, present participle high-centering, simple past and past participle high-centered)

  1. (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to become stranded with all wheels off the ground.
    • What does he think, that we're setting him up, that he'll ease his truck along the dirt road, high-center it in a rut, and then get jumped and die defending his pizzas?2010, Darrell Spencer, CAUTION Men in Trees, →ISBN, page 113
    • I had to be careful driving toward the river so I wouldn't high-center the car on a boulder and break the crankcase.2009, Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, →ISBN, page 83
  2. (intransitive) To become stranded with all wheels off the ground.

Forms of high-center

third-person singular presenthigh-centers
present participlehigh-centering
past participlehigh-centered
pasthigh-centered

Questions about high-center

What does high-center mean?
High-center means to cause (a vehicle) to become stranded with all wheels off the ground.
What part of speech is high-center?
High-center is a verb.
What is the past tense of high-center?
The past tense of high-center is high-centered.

Words near high-center in the dictionary

  1. high-boiling
  2. high-born
  3. high-budget
  4. high-calorie
  5. high-card
  6. high-center
  7. high-centered
  8. high-centering
  9. high-centers
  10. high-centre
  11. high-centred

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