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a motor-vehicle accelerator in the form of a foot pedal; cf. sense 5.
A foot-operated lever forming one of the controls in a motor vehicle, spec. that used for acceleration. Also figurative.
a foot pedal which controls the speed of a vehicle's engine; an accelerator pedal.