street race

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.

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.

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