stock car


noun

a standard model of automobile changed in various ways for racing purposes.
Also called cattle car. Railroads. a boxcar for carrying livestock.

Origin of stock car

1855–60, Americanism for def 2

OTHER WORDS FROM stock car

stock-car, adjective

Example sentences from the Web for stock car

  • It was true: the passengers of the Oklahoma were crowded like cattle on a Kansas stock-car.

    The Magnetic North |Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

British Dictionary definitions for stock car

stock car

noun

  1. a car, usually a production saloon, strengthened and modified for a form of racing in which the cars often collide
  2. (as modifier)stock-car racing
US and Canadian a railway wagon designed for carrying livestock Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): cattle truck