dragstern.
/ˈdraɡstə/, U.S. /ˈdræɡztər/, /ˈdræɡstər/ Originally U.S.
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1954 Amer. Speech 29 95 Dragster is one of the classifications in official acceleration competition.
1955 Britannica Bk. of Year 490/1 Dragster (drag + roadster), a ‘hot rod’, or car constructed from spare parts and designed to exhibit the maximum of engine efficiency and the minimum of elegance.
1961 Engineering 18 Aug. 200/1 His new dragster..is the first British-designed version of an American sprint car.
1967 Times Educ. Suppl. 13 Oct. 762 (caption) Some of the boys with a ‘dragster’ they built.
1971 B. Callison Plague of Sailors i. 43 One of those ostentatious James Bond-type dragsters that was all chrome-plated wheel spokes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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