Automobiles & Transportation Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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ape hanger n. The Norfolk resident’s handlebars were quite high; she uses the stylized bars bikers refer to as “ape hangers.” [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 23, 2007)

Arizona pin-striping n. The choicest (and hardest) pieces of the trace still remain. Bring your own catclaw, just in case we don’t find enough on the route. Naturally, your 4WD vehicle gets an absolutely free Arizona pin-striping job. [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 14, 2006)

Arizona pinstriping n. Character marks huh. I have a good rash of Arizona Pinstriping down both sides from wheeling on Turkey day. Went yesterday and kissed some rocks with the front bumper. [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 14, 2006)

Arizona pinstriping n. I’m not out there to abuse it, but paint is optional here in Tucson due to Arizona pinstriping. So why make it pretty when the next time out, the brush will stripe the hell out of it? Functional is good. [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 14, 2006)

auto chocolate n. They sell what are known here as “autos chocolates,” coined because these aging used cars are like a box of chocolates: You never know what you’ll get.…In 2001 the Mexican government offered an amnesty for camionetas chocolates, or imported trucks. [ Language Spanish Place Mexico Subject Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Oct. 16, 2005)

auto-rick n. And speaking of auto-rickshaws, I did work up the courage to make a few short trips on the three-wheelers. Affectionately called “auto-ricks” by the locals, they reminded me of Bangkok’s infamous tuk-tuks. [English India Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jul. 31, 2005)

B-car n. A “B-car” in global industry parlance, it is what we call a subcompact—a market segment in which the auto maker is not currently represented. [English Automobiles & Transportation Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 12, 2006)

B-train n. According to the police summary of facts, at 6.57pm on October 8 Harrison was driving a fully laden truck and two articulated trailers—commonly known as a B-train—and was travelling west on SH29, Tauriko, towards the Kaimai Range. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jun. 25, 2007)

back-seat bullet n. However, unbuckled passengers aren’t the only threat to those in the front seat. “Anything that is not restrained or tied down will be thrown forward,” he said. “We’ve coined the phrase ‘back-seat bullets.‘“ [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jan. 2, 2007)

backover n. Alec and Cameron are just two victims in what parents and child safety advocates call a growing trend of children being killed and maimed by vehicles—often their family’s own SUVs and minivans—backing out of driveways and parking spaces.…Fennell contends that more than half of the backover accidents involve big vehicles like SUVs and minivans.…Gulbransen, a pediatrician who has treated other children injured in backovers, said he could not have been more careful. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Apr. 29, 2007)

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