street race

English

Noun

street race (plural street races)

1. (motor racing) An instance of street racing; a competitive race between cars driving on public roads rather than a race track.

Verb

street race (third-person singular simple present street races, present participle street racing, simple past and past participle street raced)

1. To race in a street race.
   • 1991, H. F. Moorhouse, Driving Ambitions: An Analysis of the American Hot Rod Enthusiasm, Manchester, New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 194:

     His argument was that the brotherhood didn’t really want to street race but did want all-night drag strips which the curfew laws prohibited.

   • 2009, James B. Bergstad, Screwing the Pooch, published 2013, →ISBN, page 71:

     I’d spent a big chunk of my paychecks on my car and loved to street race.

   • 2013, Shirley Muldowney, Bill Stephens, Tales from a Top-Fuel Dragster: A Collection of the Greatest Drag Racing Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, →ISBN:

     Luckily, she didn’t him, but what were the odds that he would be coming in the other direction at that very moment? That was the last time she street raced.

Alternative forms

• street-race