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Certain race participant
Answer for the clue "Certain race participant ", 8 letters:
motorcar
Alternative clues for the word motorcar
Word definitions for motorcar in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also motor-car , 1895 from motor (n.) + car .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Motor car \Motor car\, or Motorcar \Mo"tor*car`\, n. An automobile, locomobile, or locomotive designed to run and be steered on a street or roadway; esp., an automobile specially designed for passengers and propelled by an internal combustion engine. Syn: ...
Usage examples of motorcar.
Oh, it could have stopped quicker, but you could say that about any motorcar of its vintage.
He ran across the street to get her--and never saw the motorcar that hit him.
But when he put the picnic basket in the back seat of the motorcar, it made the springs visibly settle.
In a motorcar, you could go where and when you wanted to go, do whatever you wanted to do.
Pavement plenty good enough for motorcars crumbled when caterpillar treads supporting fifteen or twenty times the weight of a motorcar dug into it.
He did notice bomb damage dropped off sharply once the motorcar got out of Philadelphia.
Mort might notice that the gas gauge on the motorcar was down a little farther than it should have been.
Two hundred for the house, two hundred for the motorcar, that was what she had planned.
I have a house, a motorcar and a job that gives me security and dignity.
She might have turned aside and taken a different route to her motorcar, but the young people buffeted her along and she could see no graceful way to veer off.
Get your despicable, perspiring, bloated body away from this place before I get in my motorcar and run you down where you stand.
Running all over the country in that motorcar of hers - how could a mother possibly keep track of a daughter like that?
She would crisscross the countryside in that sassy motorcar of hers, dressed in a white uniform.
My view that evening was spoiled by the confounded motorcar, which Emerson continued to leave standing outside the house instead of putting it in the stable.
He had been a bit shy of me since the arrival of the motorcar, but this morning he had a new grievance.