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

Citations in the Category Automobiles & Transportation

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vomit comet n. It was the second flight on the aircraft for the athletes. On Tuesday, they were flown while strapped in their seats and blindfolded. During that flight the jet lived up to its nickname—the “vomit comet.” All of the athletes, but Johnson became ill. [English Automobiles & Transportation Aviation Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 29, 2006)

wad v. All of the sudden, I dropped into “the zone” and found myself riding a perfect 15MPH constant-speed balanced wheelie. After about 100-150 ft. on the back wheel, I got nervous and set it down (I panicked—figured something was bound to happen that would cause me to wad if I didn’t get back on two wheels!) [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 7, 2004)

wad v. ehhh…just buy that bike for 7500, that way we can have another really expensive honda to wad next year. [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 7, 2004)

wad v. All it is going to take is one senator’s son to wad his R1 (or something) at 160 mph and kill himself or the congressman’s daughter goes for a ride with a squid on a GSX-R1000 who target fixates into a rock wall and bam! [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 7, 2004)

wad v. I know the R1 gets your wheaties but she’s a handful for inexperienced riders. Be careful and try not to wad that expensive little toy. [Automobiles & Transportation Entertainment Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 7, 2004)

way back n. I dare say that most people who are parents now never rode in a car seat as children. Many of us didn’t even use the car seat belts when riding around town. We scrambled to ride in the “way back” of the family station wagon. [English United States Automobiles & Transportation Colloquial] [full cite] (Oct. 7, 2007)

weird stacking n. Ms. Reel and others had noticed a curious byproduct of the parking experiment, a phenomenon perhaps already studied by transportation specialists. She called it “weird stacking,” the notion that cars left on a street create unusual, annoying parking gaps that when taken together, can make a driver scream. [English Automobiles & Transportation Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 29, 2008)

wet n. Ferrari had shot themselves in the foot with their tyre choice for the grid. Whereas the entire field were required to start on extreme wets, they thought they could get away with shallow cut wets. [English Automobiles & Transportation Sports & Recreation Jargon] [full cite] (Oct. 5, 2007)

wheel tax n. The money for the dust control came from the local option highway users tax, commonly known as the “wheel tax.” [ Language English Subject Automobiles & Transportation Money & Finance] [full cite] (Jan. 1, 2006)

whip n. “It has some of the hottest whips on the planet,” she added, using the current East Coast slang for car. [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (May. 4, 2004)

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