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Racecar with a parachute
Answer for the clue "Racecar with a parachute ", 8 letters:
dragster
Alternative clues for the word dragster
Word definitions for dragster in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1954, from drag (n.) in the racing sense + -ster , perhaps abstracted from roadster .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A heavily modified or custom-built vehicle used in drag racing. 2 One who engages in drag racing.
Usage examples of dragster.
Richard strode through the car park and its exemplary diversity of stilled traffic, like an illustration of all you might meet on the contemporary road with its contraflow and intercool: hearse, heap, dragster, dump truck, duchess-wagon, cripple-bubble.
Other dragsters brought their bikes on trailers, handling them like Ming vases.
This was the term Jordan coined for the semi-suicidal dragsters who would go roaring past at high speeds, usually in the middle of the road, always with their high beams glaring.
On a return vacation to Hawaii several years later, I found that the car had been converted to a dragster that won several trophies on the local drag strip.