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hotrod

hotrod is the alternative spelling of hot rod.

Meaning of hot rod

Noun

hot rod (plural hot rods)

  1. Typically a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster. The term may be used generically to apply to any car, truck, or motorcycle (et al.) modified for increased speed and/or performance. It may also be used to specifically describe and refer to modified cars from the original (or traditional) era of "hot rods", post World War II and prior to 1960.
    • Miller famously tried to use as little CGI as possible in Fury Road. Instead, he got people to make the freaky, impossible cars he’d envisioned—the spike-covered scavenger-mobiles, the monster-truck hot rod, the enormous War Rig that really serves as a main character in itself—into functional...2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club
    Synonyms:
    racer, rod, speedster
  2. (slang) The penis.

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Forms of hotrod

pluralhotrods

Questions about hotrod

What is hotrod the alternative spelling of?
Hotrod is the alternative spelling of hot rod.

Words near hotrod in the dictionary

  1. hotpresser
  2. hotpressers
  3. hotpresses
  4. hotpressing
  5. hotr
  6. hotrod
  7. hotrodder
  8. hotrodders
  9. hotrods
  10. hotrs
  11. hots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hotrod (page history and authors); hot rod (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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