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muscle car

muscle car noun: any of a variety of automobiles, especially American coupes from the 1960s and early 1970s, that are modified to look and perform like race cars and equipped with large, powerful V-8 engines that allow for quick acceleration to high speeds; but still designed for travel on regular highways.

muscle car: any of a variety of automobiles, especially American coupes from the 1960s and early 1970s, that...
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Noun

muscle car (plural muscle cars)

  1. Any of a variety of automobiles, especially American coupes from the 1960s and early 1970s, that are modified to look and perform like race cars and equipped with large, powerful V-8 engines that allow for quick acceleration to high speeds; but still designed for travel on regular highways.
    • In his senior year, he had run across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day.2011, Kat Martin, A Song for My Mother, Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 200
    • During high school he'd spent four years working as a breakfast cook and dishwasher in Sal's calzone restaurant, saving up enough money to buy himself a muscle car, a maroon 1973 Mercury Cougar XR-7, which he painted black.2017, Finbarr O'Reilly, Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War, Viking, →ISBN, page 10

Forms of muscle car

pluralmuscle cars

Origin of muscle car

From muscle + car.

Questions about muscle car

What does muscle car mean?
Muscle car means any of a variety of automobiles, especially American coupes from the 1960s and early 1970s, that are modified to look and perform like race cars and equipped with large, powerful V-8 engines that allow for quick acceleration to high speeds; but still designed for travel on regular highways.
What part of speech is muscle car?
Muscle car is a noun.
What is the plural of muscle car?
The plural of muscle car is muscle cars.

Words near muscle car in the dictionary

  1. Muscle Beach
  2. muscle boat
  3. muscle boats
  4. muscle boy
  5. muscle boys
  6. muscle car
  7. muscle cars
  8. muscle confusion
  9. Muscle Creek
  10. muscle dysmorphia
  11. muscle fiber

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