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racer

DEFINITIONS OF: racer

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n someone who drives racing cars at high speeds

Synonyms:
automobile driver, race driver
Examples:
Berna Eli Oldfield
United States race driver who was the first to drive faster than a mile a minute (1878-1946)
Types:
finisher
a racing driver who finishes a race
Type of:
driver
the operator of a motor vehicle

n a fast car that competes in races

Synonyms:
race car, racing car
Types:
finisher
a race car that finishes a race
stock car
a racing car with the basic chassis of a commercially available car
Type of:
auto, automobile, car, machine, motorcar
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine

n an animal that races

Types:
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greyhound
a tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog
steeplechaser
a horse trained to run in steeplechases
finisher
an animal that wins in a contest of speed
Italian greyhound
a toy dog developed from the greyhound
whippet
small slender dog of greyhound type developed in England
Type of:
animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

n slender fast-moving North American snakes

Types:
Coluber constrictor, black racer, blacksnake
blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet
Coluber hippocrepis, horseshoe whipsnake
slender fast-moving Eurasian snake
Coluber constrictor flaviventris, blue racer
bluish-green blacksnake found from Ohio to Texas
Type of:
colubrid, colubrid snake
mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
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