lowrider

English

From low +‎ rider.

lowrider (plural lowriders)

A vehicle, usually a passenger car, with its suspension system modified so that it rides as low to level ground as possible without dragging.
- 2007 November 18, Phil Patton, “Inches Above the Road and in The Mans Face”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  The first lowriders were rounded models from the 1930s and 40s.
(slang) The driver or a frequent passenger of such a vehicle.
Attributive form of lowriders.
- 1999, Jane Vandenburgh, The Physics of Sunset, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 106:
  Cecily was dressed as a pile of laundry—wide-legged lowrider pants that she wore down on her hips, layers of shirts, her face dusted with what looked like particles of silver.
- 2005, Robert B[rown] Parker, Cold Service (a Spenser novel), Harpenden, Herts: No Exit Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 130:
  Another young woman walked past us, wearing tight lowrider trousers and a cropped T-shirt that stopped several inches shy of the trousers.
- 2006, Stephen King, Cell, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 4:
  Behind them stood a woman in a pants suit with a poodle on a leash and a couple of teenage girls in lowrider jeans with iPods and earphones that were currently slung around their necks so they could murmur together—earnestly, no giggles.

automobile