high-center

high-centre, high center, high centre

high-center (third-person singular simple present high-centers, present participle high-centering, simple past and past participle high-centered)

1. (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to become stranded with all wheels off the ground.
   • 2010, Darrell Spencer, CAUTION Men in Trees, →ISBN, page 113:

     What does he think, that we're setting him up, that he'll ease his truck along the dirt road, high-center it in a rut, and then get jumped and die defending his pizzas?

   • 2009, Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, →ISBN, page 83:

     I had to be careful driving toward the river so I wouldn't high-center the car on a boulder and break the crankcase.

   • 2006, Raj Madhavan, Elena R. Messina, James Sacra Albus, Intelligent Vehicle Systems: A 4D/RCS Approach, →ISBN, page 274:

     For example, positive obstacles such as fallen trees directly along the prescribed path would high-center the vehicle and negative obstacles such as culverts near certain intersections in the Urban course went undetected and became hazards for the XUV.

2. (intransitive) To become stranded with all wheels off the ground.

• high centre, high-centre