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ˈstock-car
[f. stock n.1 + car n.1]
1. A truck or wagon for transporting cattle or other livestock by rail. U.S.
1858Pennsylvania Rail Road Ann. Rep. 14 The rolling stock [included]..188 Eight-wheeled Stock Cars. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2390 Stock⁓car, a railway-car for carrying cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, etc. 1898Kipling Day's Work 222 There were oil-cars, and hay-cars, and stock-cars full of lowing beasts. 1920Proc. 3rd Nat. Country Life Conf. 12 They shot me across the country in a stock car. 1949Exciting Western May 55/1 Another group was bringing the cattle up the Texas trail to ship east in the stock cars.
2. A racing car which has the basic chassis of an ordinary commercially produced vehicle but is extensively modified for use in racing. orig. U.S.
1914Automobile 9 Apr. 792/2 It was a more strenuous test than ever staged in America in the days of stock cars. 1927Sat. Even. Post 21 May 71 America's fastest stock car. 1935Eyston & Lyndon Motor Racing & Record Breaking viii. 73 They have been rivalled by reconstructed ‘stock’ cars. 1960Daily Tel. 26 Sept. 1/8 (heading) Stock car ploughs into 10-deep crowd. 1982Times 16 June 10/3 Andretti raced cars, stock cars, midgets, whatever presented itself.
3. attrib., as stock-car driver, stock-car racer, stock-car racing, etc.
1914Automobile 9 Apr. 800/1 Chairman Richard Kennerdell and his Contest Board are at work on the stock car rules. 1955Times 17 May 10/1 A woman stock car driver..died in a Coventry hospital to-night from injuries received in an accident while she was competing in a stock car meeting. 1960News Chron. 26 Sept. 1/5 He organises stock-car and jalopy racing. 1969A. Lurie Real People 114 Nick Donato proposed that we should all go and watch what he called ‘my kind of racing’—at the stock-car track over in Dryden. 1973‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green vi. 29 Ramshackle, blaring taxis, weaving round the squares with the recklessness of stock-car drivers. 1976B. Bova Multiple Man (1977) viii. 87 Become a stock car racer. It's a helluva lot safer. 1976A. Davis Television 67 The programmes close with classified results..including American and Gaelic football, stock car racing, canoe slalom and hurling. |