The Collaborative International Dictionary
Torpedo body
Torpedo body \Tor*pe"do body\ An automobile body which is built so that the side surfaces are flush. [Cant]
Usage examples of "torpedo body".
It had a torpedo body whose forward portion carried a powerful sonar transducer that ran off a tape recorder and broadcast the recorded sounds of a 688-class submarine.
The automobile is a 1925 model with a torpedo body by Cesare Sala.
Sandecker lingered by a majestic 1921 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost with coachwork by Park-Ward and a massive red 1925 Isotta-Fraschini with a torpedo body by Sala.