stock car

noun

1
: a latticed railroad boxcar for carrying livestock
2
: a racing car having the basic chassis of a commercially produced assembly-line model

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Martinsville Speedway opened in 1947 and has hosted NASCAR Cup Series races since the premier stock car racing series began in 1948. Since 1964, the winning driver at Martinsville Speedway has been given a full-sized grandfather clock as the trophy for their victory. Bruce Martin, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024 Announced by Anheuser-Busch, Budweiser will sponsor Dale Earnhardt Jr. in a select series of grassroots late-model stock car races over the next year, bringing back a celebrated alliance that first began during Earnhardt Jr.'s NASCAR career from 1999 to 2007. Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024 As the plaintiffs tell it, NASCAR has too much control over premier stock racing series and abuses that control to suppress competition and curtail economic opportunities for stock car racing teams and potential rivals. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2024 Andretti is the son of racing legend Mario Andretti, 84, who won an F1 driver’s championship in 1978, the 1969 Indianapolis 500 and the Dayton 500 stock car race in 1967. Bill Koenig, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stock car 

Word History

First Known Use

1858, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of stock car was in 1858

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“Stock car.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stock%20car. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

stock car

noun
: a racing car that is similar to regular cars

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