Definition of Race driver

1. Noun. Someone who drives racing cars at high speeds.

Exact synonyms: Automobile Driver, Racer
Specialized synonyms: Finisher
Generic synonyms: Driver
Specialized synonyms: Barney Oldfield, Berna Eli Oldfield, Oldfield
Derivative terms: Race

Lexicographical Neighbors of Race Driver

raccoons
raccroc stitch
race
race-
race-bait
race-baiter
race-walk
race against time
race baiting
race car
race car driver
race card
race cards
race cars
race condition
race driver (current term)
race hatred
race hazard
race horse
race meeting
race memory
race murder
race music
race out of the traps
race problem
race queen
race queens
race relations
race riot

Literary usage of Race driver

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Putnam's & the Reader (1909)
"But the automobile race-driver gets his training just the same in the series of humiliating defeats and accidents he is pretty sure to experience before his ..."

2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"When they were gone, Léon Giron, whom the newspapers called "the greatest automobile race-driver in the world," lighted a cigarette and scowled. ..."

3. Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany by Edward Lyell Fox (1915)
"... choked with wagons, but always there opened up a lane through which drove this soldier shaving the hub of transports with the nicety of a race driver. ..."

4. Let 'er Buck, a Story of the Passing of the Old West by Charles Wellington Furlong (1921)
""Pull out of the race, driver?"—Not on your life, or on his, either. So driver and horse hang to the game and around they go—once—twice—the plucky little ..."

5. Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot by James B. Stockdale (1995)
"... to live at the Nero White House at a time when the emperor was neglecting the empire while he toured Greece as actor, musician, and chariot race driver. ..."

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