lowrider

English

A lowrider

Etymology

low +‎ rider

Pronunciation

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Noun

lowrider (plural lowriders)

1. A vehicle, usually a passenger car, with its suspension system modified so that it rides as low to level ground as possible without dragging.
   • 2007 November 18, Phil Patton, “Inches Above the Road and in The Mans Face”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The first lowriders were rounded models from the 1930s and 40s.

2. (slang) The driver or a frequent passenger of such a vehicle.
3. Attributive form of lowriders.
   • 1999, Jane Vandenburgh, The Physics of Sunset, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 106:

     Cecily was dressed as a pile of laundry—wide-legged lowrider pants that she wore down on her hips, layers of shirts, her face dusted with what looked like particles of silver.

   • 2005, Robert B[rown] Parker, Cold Service (a Spenser novel), Harpenden, Herts: No Exit Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 130:

     Another young woman walked past us, wearing tight lowrider trousers and a cropped T-shirt that stopped several inches shy of the trousers.

   • 2006, Stephen King, Cell, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 4:

     Behind them stood a woman in a pants suit with a poodle on a leash and a couple of teenage girls in lowrider jeans with iPods and earphones that were currently slung around their necks so they could murmur together—earnestly, no giggles.

Derived terms

• lowrider bicycle

See also

• Category:Lowriders on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• lowrider on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• lowriders