lowrider
Americannoun
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an individually decorated and customized car fitted with hydraulic jacks that permit lowering of the chassis nearly to the road.
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a person, often a teenager, who owns and drives such a car.
Etymology
Origin of lowrider
Example Sentences
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Vendor booths replaced vinyl racks, some selling miniature lowrider replicas and Chicano-inspired artwork.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
Vera, who was born and raised in northeast Los Angeles, grew up watching her dad and cousins fixing up their cars in the lowrider scene of 1990s Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
I think of a lowrider as a certain class of car with custom paint, 13-inch wheels, hydraulics…It’s your own little art piece on wheels.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
Sandy Avila, a 42-year-old construction company office administration manager living in Pasadena, Calif., on her 1966 Chevrolet Impala SS lowrider, as told to A.J.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
There’s a lowrider that’s painted to look like a box of Froot Loops, and a truck on some of the biggest rims I’ve ever seen in my life.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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