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

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tumblehome n. With cars, words and metal share territory: each brand’s vocabulary of shapes is collectively known as its design language. The beltline divides the greenhouse, or glassed-in upper body, from the portion that extends down from the window sills.…The angle of the windshield is known as its rake—an extreme tilt is said to be fast—while the inward angle of the side greenhouse windows is called the tumblehome. [English Automobiles & Transportation Jargon] [full cite] (Apr. 4, 2007)

tumblehome n. The Tercel’s severe “tumblehome”—the deep curvature of the roof merging into the sides of the car—brings the corners of the cabin threateningly close to your ears. [English Automobiles & Transportation Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 7, 2007)

tumblehome n. We all tried to out-fin each other back in the Fifties, and we let the fat look get out of hand in the Sixties and early Seventies, when the industry got so carried away with turn-under and tumblehome that some of the cars started looking like horseshoe crabs on roller skates. [English Automobiles & Transportation Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 7, 2007)

tuna boat n. Before there were emission controls and high gas prices, there were what I “lovingly” refer to as “tuna boats.“ They call themselves “bombers.“ They are the rolling irons that have avoided the wrecking yard’s car crushers and the popular demolition derby. [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 2, 2006)

tuner n. Sweet looking skinny 9 spoke, tuner style, you can change the color of the center cap, the center caps are chrome right now. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jan. 18, 2005)

tuner car n. Loosely and somewhat inaccurately, this is called the tuner car section, so designated because of the displays of sport or tuner versions of Subaru, Scion and Honda compact cars. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jan. 13, 2005)

tuner car n. I saw a little blurb on a tuner car called the Monster Miata. It’s a Miata with a Ford 302 dropped-in and, optionally, some “looks” packages. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jan. 18, 2005)

tuner car n. At least in ten to twenty years I can still get money back out of the Porsche where the “tuner car” will have lost nearly all of it’s value. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jan. 18, 2005)

tuner car n. If you’re dropping $100K on a tuner car, a warranty may not worry you too much. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jan. 18, 2005)

tuner car n. Although the Camry certainly isn’t as popular as a tuner car as the Honda Civic, Acura Integra or Mitsubishi Eclipse with young, male drivers, magazine editor Nosek expects that it will become a popular platform for modification. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jan. 18, 2005)

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