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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drag race
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ George and Russell took off like a drag race.
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drag race

n. A race in a car or on a motorcycle to determine the fastest vehicle. (from mid-20th c.)

Usage examples of "drag race".

The midnight roads around Antelope Valley are quiet these days, except for an occasional teen-age drag race.

He kicked down a side door, hot-wiped a convertible waiting for tune-up and drove out to Highway 101, where he got in a drag race with some hoodlums from Pasadena.

He kicked down a side door, hot-wired a convertible waiting for tune-up and drove out to Highway 101, where he got in a drag race with some hood­.

Then Pam chugged her pop and hopped through the rain and into her car, driving back to Hamilton in a halfhearted Transylvanian drag race.

Not about to risk damage to the Allard by the crazy drivers of the nation's capital, he drove an aging but pristine 1984 Jeep Grand Wagoneer that he had modified by installing a Rodeck 500-horsepower V-8 engine taken from a hot rod wrecked at a national drag race meet.

All of us from the old generation were rooting for you in that drag race, brother.

It was a drag race start: thirty bright vehicles straining forward on a ten mile straightaway.

It was a drag race start: thirty bright vehicles straining forward on a ten-mile straightaway.