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Answer for the clue "Vehicle for sporty folks ", 11 letters:
convertible

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Word definitions for convertible in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French convertible (13c.), from Late Latin convertibilis "changeable," from Latin convertere (see convert (v.)). The noun is recorded from 1610s; meaning "automobile with a fold-down top" is from 1916.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN currency ▪ Perhaps in two or three years we will have a convertible currency . ▪ There is still no mobile phone system, no credit cards and no convertible currency . ▪ He has argued for the introduction of a ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Convertible may refer to: Convertible (car) , a class of automobiles Convertible (computer) , a class of computers between tablet PCs and notebooks Convertible currency , a currency reference Convertible security , a stock trading reference IBM PC Convertible ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Automobile \Au"to*mo*bile`\, n. [F.] a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a car that has top that can be folded or removed a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock) [syn: convertible security ] a sofa that can be converted into a bed [syn: ...

Usage examples of convertible.

Traci Fishman came around the rear of the administration building, walked into the student parking lot, and unlocked a white Volkswagen Rabbit convertible.

Several hoods in front of him, sleek little fuel-injected Alpha particle manned by sandalwood-haired guy hugging cellular phone swaps places with convertible Stuttgart-apparatus piloted by blond bombshell lip-syncing to the same song Kraft himself has tuned in on the radio.

Thoma and Luis slammed their car doors to the convertible, they were two young men with long strides in black uniforms, gliding alongside each other up the steps.

She had rented the sportiest thing she could find, which was, in this case, a red Mustang convertible with a white roof, which looked a little forlorn as it pulled up through the dark winter night.

Doug where he lay on the bed, and then at Suzette, who was sleeping in the plush, convertible chair-bed on the far side of the room.

Should the Scarlatti Industries conclude the purchase of the remaining convertible debentures in Sheffield Cutlery and by exercising the conversions gain control of the company or not?

Government and in the form of legal-tender paper redeemable only with bonds bearing a low rate of interest, these bonds in turn to be convertible into greenbacks at the option of the holder.

The idea that two heroin pushers in a white Cadillac convertible would be dragging up and down the Strip, abusing total strangers at stoplights, was prima facie absurd.

To the left, an open carport sheltered a silver Audi convertible and a new white Volvo, with a vanity license plate that read CRYSTAL.

That may have been why he suddenly realised that he had been staring quite blankly at an open green convertible that swerved in to the curb towards him with a blonde blue-eyed goddess waving to him from behind the wheel.

Well like I always said, someday somebody's going to kill Bellbottom just to flay him and use his skin for a convertible roof, but Dogwalker just waved and walked on by while I made little pissy bumps at Bell.

It was back when new issues of convertible debentures were coming out and selling in the aftermarket at big premiums.

Joe put them into the convertible while Frank consulted a book on tides in the Bayport area.

Both the blue Mustang convertible and the big white Cadillac were parked in front, but no one answered Milo's bell push.

Among the things he remembered with particular sharpness, once they had crossed into New England and the Talisman began to glow again, signalling the return of normal time - or perhaps the return of time itself to Jack Sawyer - were the faces of people peering into the back seat of the El Dorado (people in parking lots, a sailor and an ox-faced girl in a convertible at a stoplight in a sunny little town in Iowa, a skinny Ohio kid wearing Breaking Away-style bicycle gear) in order to see if maybe Mick Jagger or Frank Sinatra had decided to pay them a call.