Reverse Dictionary: VEHI – VEHZ

VEHICLE – ​ADJECTIVES (also see DRIVING, BUS, TRUCKING etc.)
– AUTO DRUNK dizzy or nauseated from riding in a car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BANGED UP of objects: broken, battered, esp. of a car with notable damage to the panel work …20C sl.
– CABBIE;  CABBY addicted to the joys of motoring …sl.
– CAB-HAPPY very keen on driving motor vehicles…c1950 army sl.
– CABLED of a vehicle: equipped with a winch …2004 US sl.
– DEADLINED of a vehicle: laid up for repairs …World War II Amer. sl.
– EDGY in the used car business: said of a car that needs body work …1968 US sl.
– GUTLESS of automobiles: under-powered …c1945 colloq.
– HOPPED (UP) of a car: improved beyond its basic specifications …1940s US sl.
– MANUMOTIVE of a vehicle: propelled by mechanism worked by hand …1831
– SHAVED said of a car stripped of ornaments …Bk1998 sl.
– SOUPED UP of a vehicle: customized for greater power and speed
– VEHICULARY serving as a vehicle …1835 rare
– VEHICULATORY pert. to vehicles …1851
 
VEHICLE – ​NOUNS
– A a Model-A Ford automobile …1920s US sl.
– A-BOMB a car especially modified for quick acceleration and speed …Amer. hot rodding sl.
– A-BONE a Model A Ford car …1951 US sl.
– AC the Acura Legend, a popular automobile …1990s African-American sl.
– AFROMOBILE a three-wheeled vehicle used to convey tourists in Palm Beach, Florida; the drivers are invariably Black …1900s US sl.
– AFROMOBILE any fashionable automobile, as a BMW, Mercedes, etc. …1970s African-American sl.
– AMBULANCE a touring caravan or similar vehicle …1868 US
– ANDERSON CART a cart made from a cut-down car and pulled by horses during the 1930s depression; later, any car that ran out of petrol or broke down …1987 Can. sl.
– ANGEL-MAKER a device that can inflict death, such as a dangerous vehicle or a gun …1934 Amer. sl.
– ARKANSAS CREDIT CARD a piece of hose used to siphon petrol/gas from another car into the tank of one’s own …1970s US sl.
– ARK an old car …Bk2006 US sl.
– ARM-TWISTER a vehicle equipped with a manual starter; a car which must be hand cranked …1938 US sl.
– ARREST-ME-RED a bright red colour of paint on a car, bound to attract the attention and interest of law enforcement …1992 US sl.
– ARTIC an articulated lorry …1951 UK sl.
– ASHCAN a car …1950s US sl.
– ASHCAN a dilapidated, noisy motor vehicle …1953 Amer. sl.
– AUTOCAR a motor car …1895
– AUTO-GO-FAST a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– AUTOMOBILITY the use of automobiles or motor vehicles as a mode of travel …1903
– AUTOMOBILITY mobility by means of automobile vehicles …1909
– AUTOMOBUBBLE an automobile …1902 Amer. jocular
– AUTOMOTOR an automobile motor or motor vehicle …1895
– AUTOSPILL an emptying of an automobile by tilting or overturning …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– AUTYMOBILE an automobile …1934 Amer. dial.
– B an MGB, the ‘B’ model of the MG sports car …1960s Aust. sl.
– B a Cadillac Brougham car …1980 US sl.
– BABY an item, a thing, esp. if large or formidable; often applied to weapons and motor vehicles …1907 Amer. sl.
– BABY BENZ the Mercedes Benz model 190E, which is small and sporty …1989 African-American sl.
– BABY BUGGY a convertible sports car …1970s US homosexual sl.
– BABY BUGGY a Mini Metro car …1981 Brit. Citizens’ band radio sl.
– BABY BUGGY a convertible Volkswagen Beetle …1992 US sl.
– BACK-DOOR the position directly to the rear of a moving vehicle or flying aircraft; hence, another vehicle or aircraft occupying this position …1975 US sl.
– BAG OF BUGS a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl. 
– BAKKIE a light truck, a pick-up, a 4×4 vehicle …1960s S. Afr.
– BALL OF FIRE a fast vehicle …1940 Amer. sl.
– BANGER an old decrepit car …colloq.
– BARROW a second-hand motorcar …1950s Aust. sl.
– BATTLE WAGON an expensive car …1943 UK army sl.
– BEATER a junky old car …Bk2006 US sl.
– BEDIDDLE a car with only one working headlight …1959 Amer. dial.
– BEEP a jeep …World War II Amer. sl.
– BENNETT BUGGY a car converted to a four-wheel, horse-drawn carriage by removal of the engine, drive train and windshield (in depression times); later, any broken-down car …1987 Can. sl.
– BENZINE WAGON an automobile; a truck …World War II Amer. sl.
– BESSIE an automobile …1967 Amer. dial.
– BETSY an automobile …1967 Amer. dial.
– BIG BOAT a large, traditional American car, esp. a large station wagon …1910s sl.
– BIG IRON a large car …1975 US sl.
– BINGLE a minor car accident …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– BIRD CAGE a sedan …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BIZZING hanging onto the bumper of a car and sliding along the icy streets on one’s shoes …1969 Amer. dial.
– BLITZ BUGGY an automobile …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– BLIXEN-BUS an automobile …1916 Amer. dial.
– BLOOD WAGON an ambulance …1922 sl.
– BLUNDERBUS an automobile …1928 Amer. dial.
– BOAT an automobile …Bk1934 sl.
– BOG a putty-like material applied to the body of a motor vehicle to patch up a hole after the rust has been cut out …Aust. sl.
– BOILER an automobile …Bk1934 sl.
– BOMB an old car …Aust. sl.
– BONE-SETTER a horse hard in the riding; a rickety conveyance or vehicle …M18 sl.
– BONE-SHAKER any old vehicle which passengers find uncomfortable …20C colloq.
– BOX an automobile trailer …1942 Amer. sl.
– BREEZER a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BROUGHAM a petrol-driven automobile having a limousine body but without a roof over the driver’s seat …1903
– BUBBLE an automobile …1939 Amer. dial.
– BUCKET a motor vehicle, generally an old or dilapidated car …1938 Amer. dial.
– BUCKET OF BOLTS a motor vehicle, generally an old or dilapidated car …1950 Amer. dial.
– BUG an Army supply truck …World War II Amer. sl.
– BUG a Volkswagen car …1976 US sl.
– BUGGY an automobile; now esp. an old or modified one …1930 Amer. dial.
– BULLET an automobile with a torpedo body …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BUMPER STICKER a car or other vehicle following too closely on one’s bumper …Bk2006 US sl.
– BUM-RIDING hanging on to the bumper of a car and sliding along the icy streets …1967 Amer. dial.
– BUS any conveyance, as a car, aeroplane, etc. …Bk1934 colloq.
– BUSS-WAGON a car, esp. an old one …1950 Amer. dial.
– BUSTER a motor vehicle that gives a very bumpy ride …1974 Amer. sl.
– BUTT-BUSTER a hard-riding vehicle …1974 Amer. sl.
– BUZZ-BOX a motorcar …1920 sl.
– BUZZ BUGGY an automobile …1911 Amer. sl.
– BUZZ-BUZZ a car, esp. an old one …1909 Amer. dial.
– BUZZ-WAGON an automobile …1903 Amer. jocular
– CAB a motor car …c1920 Royal Navy sl.
– CABBIE;  CABBY a ride in a motor vehicle …L1940 army sl.
– CAD a Cadillac car …1929 sl., orig. US
– CADDIE;  CADDY a Cadillac car …1929 US sl.
– CAGE a car …1960s US sl.
– CAKE BASKET a limousine …1920s US sl.
– CALF a Cadillac car …1940s African-American sl.
– CALIFORNIA TILT a car with the bonnet (hood) sloping downward to a front end that is lower than the rear end …1976 US sl.
– CALLYVAN a caravan, a house on wheels, used by gypsy hawkers or in wild-beast shows; any very large carriage …1874 Eng. dial.
– CAMILLA PARKER (BOWLES) a Rolls Royce car …1990s Brit. rhyming sl. on ‘Rolls’
– CAN a motor vehicle or aircraft, esp. if old or dilapidated …1923 Amer. sl.
– CANDY the decoration or customization of an automobile …2000s African-American sl.
– CANDY WAGON a light truck …1942 Amer. sl.
– CANOE a large automobile …1935 US sl.
– CAR-POPPING car theft …1996 UK sl.
– CARRIAGE a wheeled vehicle generally …1560 arch.
– CARRY a means of transport; a vehicle; a two-wheeled barrow …1605 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– CARRYALL a vehicle for transport, either wheeled or on rails for snow …1963 Can. sl.
– CATCHING POLLIES holding on to the back of a vehicle so as to be pulled over snow or ice …1997 Amer. dial. 
– CEMENT-MIXER a noisy, rickety, rough-riding vehicle or vessel …1914 Amer. sl.
– CHAGALAG an old broken-down car …1967 Amer. dial.
– CHAMPION SLUMP  OF 1897 the motorcar …L19 sl.
– CHARIOT a motor car …c1945 jocular
– CHEV a Chevrolet motor car …c1925 coll., orig. US
– CHEVVY a Chevrolet motor car …c1925 coll., orig. US
– CHICKEN RUN a teenage virility ritual involving the driving of two cars at high speed towards each other, or towards a dangerous obstacle; the first one to turn aside or brake is the loser or ‘chicken’ …1970s S. Afr.
– CHICKIE RUN a virility ritual involving the driving of two cars at high speed towards each other, or towards a dangerous obstacle; the first one to turn aside or brake is the loser or ‘chicken’ …1955 US sl.
– ‘CHINE an automobile or other motor vehicle …1968 African-American sl.
– CHIRPER a loud squealing noise caused by giving the car more gasoline than necessary while releasing the clutch …1978 Amer. students’  sl.
– CHIZLER a Chrysler car or engine …1968 US sl.
– CHOP SHOP a place where parts are stripped from stolen vehicles for unlawful resale …1977 US sl., orig. police usage
– CLUNKER an old car …Bk2006 US sl.
– COCK-WAGON a van, esp. one fitted with bedding as a place for necking and copulation …M20 US sl.
– COUNTRY CADILLAC a pickup truck …1976 US sl.
– CRACK-‘EM-UP an automotive accident …1978 Amer. sl.
– CRATE an automobile; an old airplane …World War II Amer. sl.
– CREAM PUFF in the used car business: a well-preserved car …1949 US sl.
– CROCK an old and worn-out person or thing; an old decrepit car …1889 UK sl.
– CRUISER a car; a fast car …Bk2006 US sl.
– CRUTCH a car …Bk2006 US street sl.
– CUDA a Plymouth Barracuda car …1965 US sl.
– CYCLO a rickshaw pulled by a bicycle …1972 US sl.
– DADDY a Cadillac …1930s US tramps’ sl.
– DADDYLAC an expensive car that has been given to a young driver by his or her parents …20C teen & high school sl.
– DAGENHAM DUSTBIN a Ford car …1981 UK Citizens’ band radio sl.
– DAK-DAK a Volkswagen car of the first type produced …20C Aust. sl.
– DAN a sedan …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– DANCEHALL a large flat-bed semi-trailer truck …1944 US sl.
– DANDY a kind of vehicle used in the Himalayas, consisting of strong cloth slung like a hammock to a bamboo staff, and carried by two (or more) men called ‘dandy-wallahs’ …L19 Anglo-Indian
– DANGLER a lorry’s trailer …1951 UK sl.
– DANNY MARR a car …1996 UK rhyming sl.
– DEAD CART a vehicle used for transporting the dead; a hearse …1965 Amer. dial.
– DEADFOOT a slow vehicle …1976 US sl.
– DEAD MAN’S WAGON a hearse …1954 Amer. dial.
– DEAD SLED in the used car business: a car in extremely poor condition …1997 US sl.
– DEAD WAGON a vehicle used for transporting the dead; a hearse; sometimes also an ambulance …1894 Amer. dial.
– DEATH SEAT the passenger seat in a motorcar, shown statistically to be the seat most likely to bring death to its occupier when the car crashes …1960s sl.
– DETROIT DISASTER a car, presumably in bad condition …1910s sl., orig. African-American usage
– DETROIT JUNK a car, presumably in bad condition …1910s sl., orig. African-American usage
– DICKY the luggage compartment of a motor vehicle; a boot or trunk …1965 S. Asian
– DIMPLE a dent on a car’s body …1997 US sl.
– DINKY a short, coupled truck …World War II Amer. sl.
– DINKY an expensive car …1980 UK sl.
– DINKY an old, dilapidated car …1986 Trinidad and Tobago
– DIRGE a Dodge truck …1971 US sl.
– DOG CATCHER any fast truck …1971 US sl.
– DOUCHE JOB a wash or steam cleaning of a truck …1971 US sl.
– DRAG a car …1935 UK gypsy usage
– DRAG-BUGGY an old car that has been fixed up to make it go fast or make a lot of noise …1965 Amer. dial.
– DRAGGIN’-WAGON a fast car; a car customized for racing …Bk2006 US sl.
– DUCK a stolen car discovered by police through serendipitous checking of number plates …1970 US sl.
– DUESIE a Duesenberg car …1965 US sl.
– DUNE BUGGY an automobile, esp. an old or broken-down car …1965 Amer. dial.
– DUNGA;  DUNGER something sounding mechanically worn out or not in first-class order, esp. an old car …1980 Aust. & NZ sl.
– E-CAR an electrically powered car …2003 UK sl.
– E CLASS a very expensive car …2000s US teen sl.
– EGGBEATER an old motorcar …1970s sl.
– EGG CRATE an old car or aeroplane …1920s US sl.
– EGGED a bus …c1942 army sl.
– FALL-OUT the threat of pieces falling from an old, unsafe automobile …c1955 Aust. sl.
– FARTING-TRAP a jaunting car, a light two-wheeled vehicle carrying 4 people, seated 2 on each side, back to back …L19 Anglo-Irish
– FISH a nickname for an old car; a jalopy …1969 Amer. dial.
– FIX OR REPAIR DAILY a Ford truck; any Ford vehicle …1971 US sl.
– FLAMETHROWER a diesel truck with flames showing on the smokestack from an incorrect fuel-to-air ratio …1971 US sl.
– FLIVVER a Ford automobile …World War II Amer. sl.
– FOUR WHEELS a car; transportation …Bk2006 US sl.
– FOX TRAP an automobile customized and fixed up in a way that will attract women …Bk2006 US sl.
– FRIDAY AFTERNOON CAR a car that is constantly going wrong …1979 UK sl.
– FRIDAY CAR a car that is constantly going wrong …1979 UK sl.
– FRONT ROOM a sedan …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GADABOUT a Lada car …1981 UK Citizens’ band radio sl.
– GANGSTER DOORS any four-door sedan …1980 US sl.
– GANGSTER LEAN a car with hydraulic shock absorbers that are set to leave the car higher on one side than the other …1991 US sl.
– GARAGE MAN’S COMPANION a truck manufactured by General Motors Corporation …1971 US sl.
– GAS-GUZZLER a motor vehicle that demands immoderate quantities of fuel, either by design or in consequence of a driver’s excessive demands …1973 US sl.
– GASOLINE WAGON an automobile …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GASSER an automobile …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– GEORGIA BUGGY an automobile, esp. an old or broken-down car …1965 Amer. dial.
– GIG an old car …1950 Amer. sl.
– GIN PALACE a staff car; any luxurious vehicle for the use of a superior officer …1942 army sl.
– GLASS HOUSE a sedan …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GO-BILLY any kind of wheeled vehicle …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GO-BUGGY an automobile, esp. an old or broken-down car …1965 Amer. dial.
– GO-DEVIL a vehicle for which a better name is lacking ..1958 Amer. dial.
– GONDOLA a sedan …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GOOK CAR an inferior car over-decorated with chrome and accessories …1950s US sl.
– GOOK WAGON an inferior car over-decorated with chrome and accessories …1950s US sl.
– GRANNY HOLE the first gear of a truck or tractor …1984 Amer. dial.
– GRUNTER an automobile …1910s sl.
– GUNSHIP a van used in a drive-by shooting …1988 US sl.
– GUTS the interior of a car …1975  US sl.
– GUT TRUCK a wagon or truck that hauls the carcasses of dead farm stock …1983 Amer. sl.
– GUT-WAGON a wagon or truck that hauls the carcasses of dead farm stock …1925 Amer. sl.
– HACK a hearse …1950 Amer. dial.
– HACK an old, slow, or dilapidated motor vehicle, aircraft, or boat or ship …1916 Amer. sl.
– HADDOCK AND BLOATER a motor-car …1950s rhyming sl.
– HAY-BURNER a cheap automobile …1921 Amer. dial.
– HEARSE a large automobile …1938 Amer. dial.
– HENRY an automobile, esp. a Ford …1928 Amer. dial.
– HIPPOMOBILE a word used in the early days of motor vehicles for a horse-drawn vehicle …1906
– HIT CAR an automobile used to make a getaway from the scene of a murder or to carry a kidnapped victim to the place where he is to be killed …1969 Amer. criminal & police sl.
– HOG a Cadillac …1960s Amer. sl.
– HONK-HONK an automobile …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– HOOPTY a car, esp. one that is dilapidated or modified …1968 Amer. dial.
– HOOPY a car, esp. one that is dilapidated or modified …1966 Amer. dial.
– HORSE a Ford Mustang, or Colt …1975 US CB usage
– HOTCHA HEAP a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HOT CHROME a car that appeals to girls …1954 US sl.
– HOT CRATE a fast car …1942 Amer. sl.
– HOT IRON a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HOT-SHOT a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HUMMER a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HURRY-BUGGY a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HUSTLEBUGGY a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HYBRID in the car sales business, used as a euphemism for a car that has at least some parts that do not belong …1953 US sl.
– ICE WAGON a slow-moving person or vehicle …L19 US sl.
– JALOPY a dilapidated old car …20C colloq.
– JAMIE any General Motors truck …1971 US sl.
– JAM JAR a motor car …1934 rhyming sl.
– JAMMER a stolen car …2000s Irish sl.
– JAZZY JOLLOPY a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– JERKEY;  JERKY a roughly-made vehicle; a shaky jolting vehicle …1884 US
– JIGGER a bicycle or small motor vehicle or hand-car …1897 colloq.
– JITTER-BUGGY an old car that has been fixed up to make it go fast or make a lot of noise …1965 Amer. dial.
– JOY-RIDE an impulsive excursion in a car that is, from the point of view o the riders, borrowed, but from the point of view of the law, stolen …1915 US sl.
– JUDGE a 1968-73 Pontiac GTO …1992 US sl.
– JUNKER a motor vehicle in very poor condition; a vehicle which has been scrapped or is fit only for scrap …1932 colloq.
– KIDNEY-BUSTER a truck, esp. a military truck, that rides roughly …1938 US sl.
– KINKY anything that has been obtained dishonestly, esp. a stolen car …1927 Amer. criminal sl.
– KURUMA a rickshaw …1727 
– LAC a Cadillac …1980s African-American & rap music sl.
– LA-DE-DA a tram-car or motorcar …20C rhyming sl.
– LA-DI-DAH a car …1970s rhyming sl.
– LAH-DI-DAH a tram-car or motorcar …20C rhyming sl.
– LARD-ASS a slow-moving vehicle …1963 Amer. sl.
– LARDY-DAH a tram-car or motorcar …20C rhyming sl.
– LEAPING EGG CRATE a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LEAPING LENA a light truck …1971 US sl.
– LEMON a defective car …1920s sl.
– LEMON LAW law that provides redress for buyers of substandard or defective cars …1920s sl.
– LEMON POP a piece of plastic or thin metal used to slip between the moulding and the top of the window on push-button locking cars, from which a loop of dental floss is dropped over the post on the door and yanked to open the door …1996 US sl.
– LEMONZINE a limousine …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LIZZIE a car, esp. a Ford …1913 US sl.
– LOAD a car …1937 US sl.
– LOAD  a car in poor condition …1937 US sl.
– LUNKER a dilapidated motor car …1970s US sl.
– MACHINE a vehicle of any kind,  usually wheeled; in the 18th and part of the 19th centuries commonly applied to a stagecoach or mail-coach …1687 obs. exc. Sc.
– MACHINE an automobile …1901 sl.
– MACHINE a fast and attractive car …1908 US sl.
– MAGGOT WAGON a catering truck …1992 US sl.
– MAYFLOWER a Plymouth car …1965 US sl.
– MEAN MACHINE a fast or stylish car …1980s sl., orig. US
– MEAT GRINDER an automobile …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– MEAT WAGON an ambulance …1925 sl., chiefly US
– MEAT WAGON a hearse …1942 sl.
– MECHANICAL FLEA a Ford automobile, esp. one used by the military …Amer. World War I sl.
– MEXICAN BUICK a Chevrolet …1979 US sl.
– MEXICAN CADILLAC a Chevrolet …1962 US sl.
– MEXICAN RIG (derogatory) an old car that has been fixed up to make it go fast or to make a lot of noise …1966 Amer. dial.
– MITZI a Mitsubishi car …2002 Brit. sl.
– MONKEY WAGON an estate car; a ‘family’ car …1960s US sl.
– MOTOR a motor car …1984 UK sl.
– MOTOR BULLET an automobile with a torpedo body …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MOTOR TORPEDO an automobile with a torpedo body …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MOUNT in hot rodding: a driver’s car …1948 US sl.
– MUSCLE CAR a passenger car with a powerful engine, a light chassis, and two-door body …1969 US sl.
– NAG an old automobile …Bk1934 college sl.
– NINE-EIGHT a 1998 Oldsmobile …1990s US sl.
– NIXON’S REVENGE an American Ford car …1976 US Citizens’ band radio sl.
– NORTH SHORE HOLDEN a Volvo car …Aust. (Sydney) sl.
– NOTCHBACK a car with a dent in its boot/trunk …1992 US sl.
– NO-TOP a convertible with its top down …1976 US sl.
– OLD BUCKET a motor vehicle, generally an old or dilapidated car …1938 Amer. dial.
– OLD BUGGY an automobile, esp. an old or broken-down car …1965 Amer. dial.
– OIL-BURNER a vehicle which, through a malfunctioning or dirty engine, uses up a disproportionate quantity of oil …1930s sl.
– OIL-BURNER any old or dilapidated vehicle, esp. a car or ship …20C sl.
– OIL CAN an automobile …1940s US sl., derogatory
– O.J. a large car, typically a Ford or Lincoln …1980s African-American sl.
– OLD BETSY an automobile …1967 Amer. dial.
– OLD CAT a Morris Minor …1981 UK Citizens’ band radio sl.
– OLD HACK an old or dilapidated vehicle or boat …1965 Amer. dial.
– OLDS an Oldsmobile automobile …1932 US sl.
– OMYGOD a Plymouth Omega …1992 US sl.
– OTTYMOBILE an automobile …1942 Amer. dial.
– PADDOCK-BASHER a worn-out old vehicle used to drive around a country property; an off-road vehicle  …1983 Aust. sl.
– PADIDDLE a vehicle with a burned-out headlight; thus any old or run-down vehicle …1959 US sl.
– PADOODLE a car with only one working headlight …1959 Amer. dial.
– PADUNGLE a car with only one working headlight …1959 Amer. dial.
– PAIL a car …1940s US sl.
– PAIR OF WHEELS a 2-wheeled vehicle …E17
– PAPA a Lincoln automobile …1930s US criminals’ sl.
– PARLOR a sedan …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PEPPY CRATE a fast car …1942 Amer. sl.
– PERCOLATOR an automobile …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– PERDIDDLE a car with only one working headlight …1959 Amer. dial.
– PERDIDDO a car with only one working headlight …1959 Amer. dial.
– PIG a vehicle, esp. one that is heavy or awkward to control …1898 colloq.
– PIG an old truck or car …1961 Amer. dial.
– PNEUMONIA TRUCK an open lorry (truck) without doors or hood …1940 sl.
– POP-BUGGY an old car that has been fixed up to make it go fast or make a lot of noise …1965 Amer. dial.
– POPEYE a car with only one working headlight …1999 Amer. dial.
– PUDDEN a second-hand car dealer’s term relating to filler in a car’s bodywork …Brit. sl.
– PUDDING a second-hand car dealer’s term relating to filler in a car’s bodywork …Brit. sl.
– PUDDLE-JUMPER an old rickety automobile …1930s sl.
– PUDDLE-JUMPER a small commercial vehicle …Brit. sl.
– PUSH-FOOT a Ford Model T automobile …1920s W. Indies sl.
– QUEEN MARY a large tank truck …1954 US sl.
– RADA a Cadillac Eldorado …1970s African-American sl.
– ‘RADO a Cadillac El Dorado …1970s African-American sl.
– RAG a second-rate, rundown car; one in poor condition …1980s US sl.
– RAGGEDY-ASS RIDE an old car; any form of motor vehicle that has become run-down and dilapidated …1950s African-American sl.
– RAGGER a car with a ‘convertible’ soft op …1950s US sl.
– RAGGER a truck that has an open back, which, when loaded, is covered with a tarpaulin …1970s sl.
– RAG-ROOF a convertible car …1955 Amer. sl.
– RAG TOP a car with a ‘convertible’ soft top …1955 US sl.
– RAG TOP a truck that has an open back, which, when loaded, is covered with a tarpaulin …1970s sl.
– RALLY a lorry …1923 Sc.
– RANFLA a car that has been lowered and otherwise customized for teen use …1990s US sl.
– RANGE a Range Rover …2000s sl.
– RAPE WAGON a flashy car belonging to a pimp …1960s US sl.
– RAT a near-derelict but just driveable secondhand car …1940s US sl.
– RATTLER an automobile …1923 US sl.
– RATTLE-TRAP a worn-out, rickety vehicle; anything old and dilapidated; a makeshift contrivance …1888 Eng. dial.
– REGO the registration of a motor vehicle …Aust. sl.
– REST CURE the practice of sending a car to the repair shop and having it returned to the customer without anything being done to it …Bk1998 sl.
– RICE BURNER a Japanese motorcycle or car …Bk1998 sl.
– RIDE an automobile …Bk1934 sl.
– RIV a Buick Riviera car …1970s US sl.
– RIVIE a Buick Riviera car …1970s US sl.
– RIVIE HOG a Buick Riviera car …1980 US sl.
– ROACH in new car sales: a bad credit risk …1989 US sl.
– ROD a hot rod …M20 sl., chiefly US
– ROLLER a car in stock; one that a buyer can come into a dealership and see, buy, and drive home in …Bk1998 sl.
– ROLLER a Rolls Royce …Bk1998 sl.
– ROOF-RIDING riding illegally on the roof of a car, bus, etc. for the thrills …1980s US sl.
– RUST BUCKET a car that is rusted through …Bk1998 sl.
– SAD AND SORRY a lorry …1992 UK rhyming sl.
– SAGGING DEUCE a lowered Cadillac automobile …1990s African-American sl.
– SAIL a ride in a cart or other vehicle, or on horseback …1830 Sc.
– SALT SHAKER a road-gritting or road-salting vehicle …1976 US sl.
– SAMOAN FAMILY CAR a used police car bought at auction …1982 Hawaiian youth usage
– SANDBURNER a Jeep …1981 UK sl.
– SARDINE-TIN a mini-car …1960s colloq.
– SCOOTER a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SCORCHER a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SEEDAN a sedan …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SELDOM SEEN a limousine …Bk1942 Amer. rhyming sl.
– SHACKING holding onto a moving vehicle so as to be towed along over snow and ice …1993 Amer. dial.
– SHAGGING holding onto a moving vehicle so as to be towed along over snow and ice …1994 Amer. dial.
– SHAGGING-STATION a van or car used primarily for sex …1960s sl.
– SHAGGING-WAGON a van or car used primarily for sex …1960s sl.
– SHAG-WAGON a van or car used primarily for sex …1960s sl.
– SHARPIE a car that is smart or in good condition …L20 N. Amer. colloq.
– SHED a sedan …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SHITBOX a dilapidated, messy, or poor-quality vehicle or house …1968 sl.
– SHITCAN a near derelict but just drivable secondhand car, or motorcycle, one step from the junkyard …1970s US sl.
– SHITHEAP a dilapidated or untidy place, vehicle, etc. …1961 sl., orig. US
– SHORT an automobile …1914 US sl.
– SHOWCASE a sedan …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SHUNT a car accident …1959 UK sl.
– SIN BIN a van or car used primarily for sex …1980s Aust. sl.
– SITTING DUCK a stolen car discovered by police through serendipitous checking of number plates …1970 US sl.
– SIZZLER a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SKEECHING holding on the bumper of a slow-moving car on a snowy or icy street and getting pulled along …Bk1998 sl.
– SKILLET an old car …1930s sl.
– SKINHEAD a British Leyland “Allegro” car …1981 UK citizens band radio sl.
– SKITCHING holding on to the back of a vehicle so as to be pulled over snow or ice; also, holding on to a vehicle while on a bicycle …1983 Amer. dial.
– SLED a big car …1985 sl.
– SLED in the world of automobile auctions, a vehicle badly in need of repair …Bk1998 sl.
– SLUG a used car in need of major repairs …Bk1998 sl.
– SMOKE WAGON an automobile …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SNAPPY HEAP a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SNOWBIRDS snow and ice clumps that build up under the fender of the car …1987 Can. sl.
– SNOW TANK an older, large car that is reliable in snow driving …2003 US sl.
– SOUPED-UP BUGGY an old car that has been fixed up to make it go fast or make a lot of noise …1965 Amer. dial.
– SPARK-PLUGGY CAR a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SPEED-BUGGY a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SPEED-BURNER. a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SPEEDMOBILE a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SPEEDSTER a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SPEED-UP CAR a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SPEED-WAGON a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SPIVMOBILE an exceptionally ostentatious and flashy car, such as might be driven by a spiv or their successors …1980s sl.
– SPORTSTER a sports-car …1960 colloq.
– SPURT MODEL a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SPUTES sport utility vehicles …Bk1998 sl.
– STAY-WAG a station wagon …1991 US sl.
– STEAMING DEMON any large American car …1981 UK sl.
– STEPMOBILE a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– STEPPER a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– STEPPY SPEED-WAGON a fast car …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– STRUGGLE-BUGGY an automobile, esp. an old or broken-down car …1965 Amer. dial.
– TACO WAGON a car embellished with bright colours, chrome and other accessories associated with Mexican-American car enthusiasts …1960 US sl.
– TACO WAGON a modified Chevy with much Chrome and with baby booties or sponge dice hanging from the mirror …1970 Amer. sl.
– TAILGATING holding on to the back of a car as it drives over snow or ice …c1980 Amer. dial.
– TIN LIZZIE a small, cheap automobile in run-down condition, esp. a Model T Ford …1910 sl.
– TOORAK TRACTOR a luxury four-wheel drive or sport utility vehicle …21C Aust., derogatory
– TORPEDO an automobile with a torpedo body …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TOY OTTER in car repair: a Toyota car …1992 US sl.
– TRANS a car …1995 US sl.
– TRIG a block or a chock used to keep something from rolling or shifting; any of various contrivances used to stop or slow a vehicle …1871 Amer. dial.
– URBAN SURFING riding illegally on the roof of a car for the thrills …1980s US sl.
– VACUUM CLEANER a sports car …1940s sl.
– V-DUB a Volkswagen motor vehicle …1970 Aust. sl.
– VEE-DUB a Volkwagen car …1970s Aust. sl.
– VEEKILE a vehicle …c1850 Sc.
– VEE-WEE a Volkswagen car …1960s sl.
– VEHICULATION conveyance by means of a vehicle or vehicles; vehicular activity or traffic …1834
– VEHICULUM a vehicle …1633 obs.
– VELOCIPEDE a swift-moving vehicle …1838
– VETTE a Corvette automobile …1950s sl.
– VIACLE a vehicle …1894 Sc.
– VICKY a Ford Victoria sedan, first built in the 1930s and then revived in the 1950s …1965  US sl.
– VICTORY V a Triumph car …1981 UK citizens’ band radio sl.
– VOLKS a Volkswagen car …1964 US sl.
– VOLKSIE a Volkswagen car, esp. the ‘Beetle’ …19162 S. Afr. sl.
– WAGON an old, worn-out, beat-up car …1959 US sl.
– WHIP a car; used by urban Black youths …2004 UK sl.
– WHISKEY DENT a dent on your car that you don’t remember incurring while driving drunk …1984 US sl.
– WHOOPEE;  WHOOPY a car, esp. one that is dilapidated or modified …1922 Amer. dial.
– WHOOPTY a car, esp. one that is dilapidated or modified …1968 Amer. dial.
– WOODEN CAT a Morris Traveller car …1981 UK Citizens’ band radio sl.
– WOODIE a car with wood or synthetic wood panelling on its body …1962 US sl.
– WOODY a station wagon with wooden outside trim …1950s Amer. sl., orig. surfing usage
– WRAPPER a motor vehicle …1976 US citizens’ band radio sl.
– WRECK n. an old car or other vehicle …1930s Amer. sl.
– WRITE-OFF any machine, vehicle, etc., smashed beyond economic repair …1918 sl., orig. chiefly Services’
– XKE the Jaguar XKE automobile …1980s African-American sl.
– YANKEE CLIPPER a North American moving van …1976 US sl.
– YANK TANK a large car, esp. one manufactured in the US …1981 Aust. & NZ sl.
– YAP WAGON a vehicle taking tourists on sightseeing tours …1920s US sl.
– ZOOM BUGGY a fast car …1950s US teen sl.
 
VEHICLE – ​NOUNS, PERSON
– AUTOIST one who uses or drives an automobile …1903 US
– AUTOMOBILIST one who uses an automobile or motor vehicle …1897
– BACK-SEAT DRIVER a passenger in a vehicle who constantly gives the driver unwanted advice on how to drive …1927
– BONDO MECHANIC a body-shop worker who relies too heavily upon large amounts of body putty and too little upon  finesse or craft …1992 US sl.
– CLOCKER a person who turns back the milometer of a motor vehicle so that it registers a falsely low mileage …L20 sl.
– DAUBER a car painter who will repaint a stolen car …20C sl.
– FULL-TIMER a person who lives in a recreational vehicle all year …1997 US sl.
– GAS-GUZZLER a person who drives a gas-guzzler, a large car characterized by high fuel consumption …1977 colloq., orig. US
– GEARHEAD an engineering student; someone mechanically minded; hence, a motor vehicle enthusiast …1975 colloq., orig. US college
– GLIMMER a person who watches vacant motorcars …1933 UK sl.
– GOOBER in the usage of young street racers, anyone who drives a car with an automatic transmission  …2003 US sl.
– GREASE MONKEY a mechanic, esp. one who works on cars or aircraft …1928 colloq.
– HIGH-RIDER a young, esp. working-class, man whose car is modified in such a way that its rear is higher than the front …1980s US sl.
– HOT SHORT HUSTLER an automobile thief …Bk1934 sl.
– INSIDE a passenger riding inside a vehicle …1816 sl.
– JEHU a fast or furious driver or operator of a vehicle …1682 humorous
– KINK a criminal; later, esp. a car thief …1910s US criminal sl.
– LEADER the driver of a vehicle …a1300 obs.
– MIDNIGHT AUTO SERVICE car thieves …1960s Amer. sl.
– MOTORHEAD a person who is over-enthusiastic about cars …1974 Amer. sl.
– MOTORPHOBE a person who has a strong fear or hatred of motor vehicles …1905 rare
– PANEL-BEATER an employee in a car body shop …1984 Aust. sl.
– PARTS CHANGER in car repair: a mechanic who replaces parts until a problem is solved instead of diagnosing the problem at the outset …1993 US sl. 
– RINGER someone who fraudulently changes the identity of a car …1970 sl.
– ROACH a car buyer without credit or with bad credit …Bk1998 sl.
– RODDER a hot-rodder; a person who converts cards into hot rods …sl., chiefly US
– SKATE JOCKEY a driver of a small car, esp. a sports car …1976 US citizens band radio sl.
– SLIDE-RULER a person coming on a used car lot or into a showroom with a strong interest in such things as miles per gallon, displacement, and EPA ratings and who often carries a calculator; not beloved …Bk1998 sl.
– SLOW MOTION a prospective car buyer who tends to think things over …Bk1998 sl.
– SPEED SHOP an automobile supplier specializing in the parts for (and sometimes building) modified cars …1950s US sl.
– SPINNER one who illegally sets back the true mileage on used cars to get them ready for market …Bk1998 sl.
– TOWIE a tow-truck driver …1975 Aust. sl.
– VANNER an owner or operator of a van or truck …1976 US & Can.
– VANNY a van driver …2000s sl.
– WAGGONER;  WAGONER the driver of a vehicle …1841 jocular
– WIPE one who washes or wipes cars or dishes …Bk1975 Amer. sl. 
– WRENCHER a car enthusiast with considerable mechanical ability …2003 US sl.
 
VEHICLE – ​PHRASES
– WHAT ARE YOU PUSHING? what sort of car do you drive? …1970s African-American sl.
 
VEHICLE – ​VERBS
– ANCHOR to apply the brakes of a car or truck …1946 US sl.
– AUTOMOBILIZE to use an automobile as a means of locomotion; to ride in or drive a motor car; to travel by automobile …1898
– CABBIE to drive a motor vehicle; to be driven …1974 UK Army use
– CABBY to drive a motor vehicle; to be driven …1974 UK Army use
– CARRY THE WHEELS to accelerate so quickly that the vehicle’s front wheels lift off the ground …1968 US sl.
– CAR-SHOP to break into a car to steal its contents …1997 US sl.
– CHEW DUST to be overtaken in a car …L19 US sl. 
– CRACK A SHORT to break into cars …1965 Amer. sl.
– DANCE to cause a car to bounce up and down by use of hydraulic lifts …1980 US sl.
– DANGLE THE CAT to drive a Caterpillar truck …1971 US sl.
– GET A TRANSFUSION to fill a vehicle with petrol/gas or diesel ..1976 US sl.
– HOT-WIRE to steal a vehicle by bypassing its ignition system …1966 sl., orig. Amer.
– JOYRIDE to steal a car for a joy-ride …1949 US sl.
– KANGAROO of a car: to move forward or to cause a car to move forward with short sudden jerks, as a result of improper use of the clutch …colloq.
– KNOCK COMMISSION OUT OF to damage a vehicle by excessive use …1940s sl.
– MONKEY WRENCH to repair a car or truck engine …1961 US sl.
– MOTIVATE to go, esp. in a motor vehicle …1955 Amer. sl.
– MOTORVATE to go in a vehicle …1978 Amer. sl.
– PANCAKE to lower the body of an automobile …1980s African-American & teen sl.
– PUT ONE’S FOOT DOWN to accelerate and drive a vehicle fast …1930s sl.
– PUT ONE’S FOOT ON THE FLOOR to accelerate a motorcar …1920s sl.
– RAKE to lower the front end of a car …1970 US sl.
– RING to fraudulently change the identity of a car …1967 sl.
– ROD UP to convert a car by giving it a very powerful engine to make it go fast …1970s US sl.
– SAIL to ride or drive in a vehicle of any kind …1904 Sc.
– SIT ON CHROME to possess an automobile that is fitted with chrome rims on the wheels …2000s African-American sl.
– SKEETCH to hang onto the back of a vehicle in order to be pulled when one is on skates, a sled, skis, etc. …1979 Amer. dial.
– SPLACK to steal a car, esp. by shattering the steering column …1993 US sl.
– TRIG to place a stone or block of wood, etc. to prevent a wheel from running back on a descent …1815 Amer. dial.
– UNLOAD to get off or out of a vehicle …20C US sl.
– VEHICULATE originally, to convey, to transport; later, to carry or convey in a vehicle, or as if in a vehicle …1628 obs.
– VEHICULATE to travel, ride, or drive in a vehicle …1843 chiefly humorous usage, rare
– WRITE ONESELF OFF to have a motor accident … Aust. sl.

VEHICLE PARTS – ​NOUNS (also see TIRE)
– ANCHOR an automobile brake …1936 sl., orig. trucking usage
– ARMSTRONG STARTER the crank handle used on early trucks …1942 US sl.
– BANGER the front bumper of a vehicle …Bk2006 US sl.
– BIG HOLE the lowest gear of a truck or other vehicle …1947 Amer. dial.
– BINDERS brakes, esp. a hand brake …1943 Amer. dial., orig. railroad usage
– BLINDING LIGHTS the high beans of a car’s headlights …1968 Amer. dial.
– BOLONY an automobile tire …Bk1934 sl.
– BOOM a car stereo …20C teen & high school sl.
– CALIFORNIA TIRES tires with little or no tread remaining …1971 US trucking sl.
– CHATTERBOX a car radio …1930s US sl.
– CHATTERBOX AND FISH POLE a car radio and aerial …1930s US sl.
– CHEATER a rear view mirror on a vehicle …1947 Amer. dial.
– CHEATER SLICKS car tires that are smooth but not quite treadless …1970 US sl.
– DAGENHAM GIRL PIPER a windscreen wiper …20C Brit. rhyming sl.
– DASH the dashboard of a motor-car …c1910 sl.
– DOGBOX a truck’s gear box …1971 US sl.
– DOUGHNUT a tire; in motor racing: a fat, treadless tire …1922 US sl.
– DOUGHNUT an undersized, often illegal, steering wheel …1980 US sl.
– E-BRAKE a vehicle’s emergency brake …2003 US sl.
– FIDDLE AND FIRE in the car sales business: a radio and heater …1953 US sl.
– FLAME-OUT an empty petrol tank …1960 US sl.
– FOOTREST an accelerator pedal …1976 US sl.
– FUZZ-SPOTTER a rear view mirror …1979 UK sl.
– GANGSTER WHITEWALLS showy, flashy, whitewalled tires …1972 US sl.
– GLARE a bright light on a car …1967 Amer. dial.
– GO BUTTON a car’s accelerator …1993 US sl.
– GOODIE extra parts or equipment for a car enhancing its performance and/or embellishing its appearance …1954 US sl.
– GRANDMA the low gear on a truck …1958 US trucking usage
– GUN the accelerator of a car …1900s sl.
– GUT an air hose on a brake system …1946 US sl.
– JACK-OFF BAR a truck’s emergency brake …1971 US sl.
– JOCKEY BOX a glove compartment …US
– JUG a carburettor …1942 US sl.
– JUICEPOT a carburettor …1971 US sl.
– LORD SUTCH the clutch …1960s rhyming sl.
– LOUD PEDAL the accelerator …c1940 Aust. sl.
– MARKER a license plate …1921 Amer. dial.
– NERF BAR a bumper fitted to a customized car …1940s US sl.
– NERFING BAR a bumper fitted to a customized car …1940s US sl.
– NIGGER BAIT an excess of chrome accessories on an automobile …1950s sl., derogatory
– O-DOM an odometer …2000 US sl.
– ORGAN a car radio …1978 US sl.
– PADS car license plates …1930s US sl.
– PARKERS parking lights …1960s Aust. sl.
– PEDESTRIAN SPEAR a large, sharp car radiator ornament …1962 US sl.
– PUMPTURE a puncture, tire trouble …1991 Irish sl.
– QUAD a carburettor with four barrels …1965 US sl.
– RAG a well-worn tire …1961 sl.
– RAG the car or truck’s soft top …1970s sl.
– RAGGER the car or truck’s soft top …1970s sl.
– RAG TOP the car or truck’s soft top …1970s sl.
– RINGER a false registration plate on a stolen vehicle …1962 US sl.
– SET OF SKINS a set of tires …Bk1995 US sl.
– SKETCHLEY’S AERIAL a wire coat-hanger used as a makeshift aerial for a car radio after the proper one has been broken …Brit. sl.
– SLUG a piston …Bk1998 sl.
– SLUSH automatic transmission …Bk1998 sl.
– SLUSH BOX automatic transmission …Bk1998 sl.
– SNEAKERS car wheel rims …2003 US sl.
– SNIFFER a device placed on a vehicle’s exhaust pipe to measure the pollutants in the emission …1993 US sl.
– SNOOZE PATROL cruise control …Bk1998 sl.
– SPAGHETTI excess chrome or trim on a car …Bk1998 sl.
– SPEEDO a speedometer …1930s sl.
– SQUINT tinted windshield glass …Bk1998 sl.
– TACH;  TACHO;  TACK a tachometer, an instrument that measures the velocity of machines …1960s sl.
– TAG a vehicle number-plate …1930s sl.
– TAIL in hot rodding: a fox tail or raccoon tail tied to the car …1960 US sl.
– TINTS tinted car windows …1980 US sl.
– TRAFFICATOR a directional signal on a vehicle for indicating which way it is going to turn …Brit.
– TRANNIE;  TRANNY in a car or truck: a transmission …1993 US sl.
– VOGUE a wheel rim …2001 US sl.
– WING a car door …1970s US sl.
– WOBBLESTICK a gear lever on a truck or car …1971 US sl.
– X the accelerator on a car …1950s W. Indies sl.

VEHICLE SALES – NOUNS
– DIP SHOP in the used car business: a small finance company with very high interest rates that will offer loans to customers who might not otherwise qualify for financing …1975 US sl.
– FACELIFT in the used car business: the procedure of turning back the miles on the odometer (mileometer) …1997 US sl.
– HAIRCUT a lowering of the true mileometer/odometer reading of a motor vehicle to increase its retail value …1990 NZ sl.
– PACK in the used car business: a fixed amount that is added to the price the dealer has paid for the car …1975 sl.
 
VEHICLE SALES – NOUNS, PERSON
– BAREFOOT PILGRIM a trusting car buyer who questions nothing; a gullible or uninformed customer …1980 US car sales usage
– B-BACK a potential customer who say he or she will return but clearly has no intention of doing so …Bk2006 Amer. car salesmen’s sl., derogatory
– CURBSTONER in the used car business: a dealer who operates with low overheads and a small inventory …1968 US sl.
– MICE a term for car customers …Bk1994 US sl., mildly derogatory
– MOOCH in the car sales business: a customer who thinks that with arithmetic skills, a calculator, and his sharp mind, he can outsmart the salesman …1975 US sl.
– MOUSE in the used car business, a customer or potential customer – 1968 US sl.
– WAIF in car sales: an inexperienced buyer …Bk2006 Amer. sl. 
– WOOD DUCK a customer who is believed to have little likelihood of making a purchase, esp. at a car salesyard …Bk1988 Aust. sl. 
 
VEHICLE SALES – PHRASES
– THERE’S AN ASS FOR EVERY SEAT in car sales: any car can ultimately be sold …1982 Amer. sl.
 
VEHICLE SALES – VERBS
– PACK THE PAYMENT in new car sales: to make a sale for a price slightly below what the customer has said what they are willing to spend …1989 US sl.
– SKATE in the used car business: to steal another salesman’s sale …1975 US sl.