Crossword clues for speeder
speeder
- Traffic menace
- Traffic court attendee
- Ticket recipient, maybe
- State trooper's catch
- Smokey's target
- Roadway scofflaw
- Racy person?
- Racing driver
- Pedal-to-the-metal type
- One tearing up the road
- One risking a ticket
- One over 65, perhaps
- One in the left lane, typically
- One ignoring the limit
- One caught with radar
- One caught in a trap
- Man with a ticket
- Limit ignorer
- Highway scofflaw
- Driver doing 90, say
- Citation recipient
- 75+ person?
- Left-lane type
- Road menace
- One going 75, e.g.
- One over the limit
- One who enjoys unlimited travel?
- Pedal-to-the-metal sort
- Ticket taker?
- One hoping not to be cited
- Radar target
- Jehu
- He goes like 60
- Radar victim
- Menace on the road
- State trooper's prey
- Trooper's quarry
- Traffic violator
- Radar catch
- Highway menace
- Fast driver
- One driving too fast
- Trooper's catch
- Traffic-ticket candidate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Speeder \Speed"er\, n.
One who, or that which, speeds.
(Spinning) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who drives fast," 1891, agent noun from speed (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who speeds, or exceeds the maximum legal speed limit. 2 (context dated English) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings, in spinning. 3 a motorized railroad track crew cart
WordNet
n. a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit [syn: speed demon]
Wikipedia
A speeder (also known as railway motor car, putt-putt, track-maintenance car, crew car, jigger, trike, quad, trolley or inspection car, and also known as a draisine (although that can also be unpowered) is a maintenance of way motorized vehicle formerly used on railroads around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move quickly to and from work sites. Although it is slow compared to a train or car, it is called speeder because it is faster than a human-powered vehicle such as a handcar. Motorised inspection cars date back to at least 1896, when it was reported that the U.S. Daimler Motor Company created a gasoline powered rail inspection car capable of 15 mph.
In the 1990s, speeders were replaced with trucks (usually pickup trucks or sport utility vehicles) using flanged wheels that could be lowered for on-rail (called road-rail vehicles or hi-rails for highway-railroad). Speeders are collected by hobbyists, who refurbish them for excursions organized by the North American Railcar Operators Association in the U.S. and Canada and the Australian Society of Section Car Operators, Inc. in Australia.
Speeder may refer to:
- Speeder, in rail transport, a maintenance of way vehicle
- Speeders, a reality television show
- Speedrun, an attempt to play a game in the shortest possible time
- various fictional vehicles in the Star Wars universe, including:
- Landspeeder
- Airspeeder
- Speeder bike
Usage examples of "speeder".
He then soots Han, Montross and Chewbacca riding up in a transport speeder.
The speeder came at him, a saddle-shaped vehicle with no weapons in evidence, made to rely on quickness and maneuverability rather than firepower.
Several speeders sat halfway between the lodge and the outwall, with five troopers lounging around them.
The Imperial speeder bikes flashed past beneath, along with the stormtroopers who had vacated them, and a sandrock wall loomed ahead.
Ten woodburning chimneys: Real nostalgia stuff, except for speeder parking near the northeast corner of the fenced grounds.
And the speeding citations we issued over all those years I not once did either of us ever receive a summons to traffic court to confront the speeders we had cited.
Wuher noticed amidst the urban burblings a larger number of speeders than usual, as well as a discomfiting percentage of stormtroopers.
He thought briefly of dodging through the speeders and trying to lose his pursuers that way, but as he drew closer he saw the triangularheaded Arconan dealer gloating over a deal he had just made, and he realized his salvation was at hand.
Eyvind and I took our speeders and got out of there and saw no more of the Sand People that day.
I let the young fools chase the speeders at a hundred miles an hour and bring in the mean drunks.
I mean bringing in the big ticket speeders with Knowing and Understanding.
Blind corners, dips in the road, mountain sides I none of these can hide speeders from you.
We both were in good spirits, talking casually about speeders we had brought down, the permanent ozone hole over Illinois, the collapse of the Japanese stock exchange, the civil war in France.
WAS WITH me and I managed to avoid the notice of cops looking for speeders, arriving in Cincinnati with enough time to spare to find a place to stay.
The bike roared forward and Corran knew the man intended to impale him on the spikes that jutted forward of the speeder bike's vector-control surfaces.