muscle car

noun

: any of a group of American-made 2-door sports coupes with powerful engines designed for high-performance driving

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He’s been content to zoom through life, doing runs and drops for Saxton in his gorgeous cherry-red muscle car, bedding different women and spending time with his friend Izzy (Camille Guaty) and her precocious young daughter, Luna (Adriana Aluna Martinez). Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 May 2025 The familiarity becomes a feature rather than a bug on the windshield of the titular Plymouth muscle car that Holloway’s master getaway driver Jim Ellis uses to outrun all his problems. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2025 At one point its images of a man hitting the nitrous button in his muscle car contorts as though his whole body is being pushed through a syringe. Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025 Photo : Photo: Courtesy of RM Sotheby's Long before there were sports sedans or homologation specials or even muscle cars, there was the Hudson Hornet. Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for muscle car

Word History

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of muscle car was in 1966

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“Muscle car.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muscle%20car. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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