Drag Racing Slang - A Language Unto Itself
(as assembled by the late Ron Miller)

A
Anchor (A Real Anchor) slow Car
Anchors (brakes)
Add 10 (nitro, mag or blower)
Altered
Ass Dragger (wheelstand)
At The Hit


B
Baby Moons (wheel covers)
Backdoor
Back Her Down
Back Pedal
Backsided
Bad News (good runing car)
Ballooned the balonies (Tires)
Barn Door Bash (race)
Beams (Photocells)
Bent 8 BFH (Hammer)
Bicycle Big Arm (Stroker Crank)
Big Wienie (top driver)
Bird Catcher (fuel injector)
Bitchin
Black Death
Blackened The Crank
Bleach Box
Blinkey (Finish line light)
Blip The Throttle
Blowover
Blow The Doors Off
Blow the Rods Out (of the pan or block)
Blue Tip Wrench
Boiling The Hides (Tires)
Bottom End (engine)
Bottom End (track)
Bug Catcher (fuel injector)
Bump Out
Bump The Mag
Burndown
Burnout
Bury Your Foot
Butterfly Wheel
Butt Ugly
Buzz Box (mag timer)
Bottom End (crand & rods)


C
Cacklecar
Cacklefest
Came On
Can, Lid & Label
Castle Walls
Catch Net
Change His Shorts
Cheater Slicks
Chizler (Chrysler)
Cogs (Gears)
Count to five and duck!
Cross Form (Chute)
Cross Ram
Crossed Up
Cut a Fat One (Top Speed)
Cutout (a missfire)
Cutouts (exhaust)


D
Daylighted the Guy
Day Lighted 'Em
Dead Player (broken)
Death Smoke
Deep Stage
Did A Doughnut (Spun A Circle)
Digger Diver (CrewMember)
Do A Peelie
Donovan (Engine)
Don't lift till you feel the  splinters from fhe  guardrail.
Donuts (Tires)
Doorcar
Doorslammer
Doubleclutch
Double Step
Double Trick
Double Throwdown
Double Throwdown Bitchin
Drilled Him On The Tree
Drive it like you stole it.
Drive the Doors Off
Drive Through The Clutch
Drop The Laundry
Dropped A Valve
Dropping Cylinders
Drove Her Through the Shake
Drove Her Through The Smoke
Drove It Out The Back Door
Drove Into The Chute
Drove Over the the Big Parts
Dry Hop
Dump the Clutch
Dump The Laundry
Deep Stage


E
Elephant Motor
Ellevated the Heads
Enderle's (injectors)
Eyeball (Inspect)


F
Far Out Fathead (Brad Anderson head)
Fatten It
FED
Fell Off The Cam
Fire Burnout
Fire Up
Fish Tail
Flame
Wrench
Flathead
Flatty
Flexy Flyer
Flopper
Fried the Tires Fueler
Full Bore (Wide open)
Fuller (a Kent car)
Fenn Car
Full Floater
Full Race Cam


G
Gallopin Hinge (Connecting Rod)
Gasser
Gate Job
Gilmore (a Woody car)
Gofer (Crew Member)
Go Juice
Gold Dust
Gorilla Snot
Got Daylighted
Got Oiled In
Gourd Guard (Helmet)
Grenade The Motor
Grocery Getter
Gunny Sacked the Trans

H
Hand Grenade
Hang Out The Laundry
Haulin Henry (Fast Ford)
Haze the tires
Hemi
He Treed Him
Header Flames
Hiccup (Backfire)
High Speed Wobble Hilborns (injectors)
Hinged It
Hole Shot
Hand Grenade
Hides (slicks)


I
If It Dont Go ,Chrome It
It Done Blowed Up
In The Box


J
Jacked Up (chassis)
Jury Rigged
Juice (Nitro)
Jug (carb)

K
KB (Keith Black)
K-88 (chassis)
Kicked The Rods Out
Killed It

L
Laguna Leanout (Hilborn injector)
Laid Down
Laid Over
Launch
Lead Sled
Leaker (prone to Leak major parts and/or fluids)
Leaver
Leavers
Left On the Wood
Leggin It
Legs Under
Lifted The Blower
Locker (rear end)
Lost the Hydrometer(100%)
Lowered (car chassis)

M
Mag (wheel or magnito)
Match Race
Mickey's Unbreakables (rods)
Midnight Oil
Mill
Mouse Motor (SB Chevy)

O
On the bell housing
On the tires
Out of shape
Out The Backdoor
Out To Lunch

P
Pedaled It
Peel Out
Pipe (chassis)
Pit Monkey (Crew Member)
Pit Tootsies (Girls)
Plastic Fantastic (funny car)
Pop Popoff
Popped A Wheelie
Popped The Chute
Pop Up Pistons
Popcorn Time (not valid)
Ported and Relieved
Posi (Rear End)
Puffer (Blower)
Puked A Mill
Puked Parts
Puke Tank
Pushstart
Put 3 (or whatever) In the pan
Put It In The Box
Put The Bitch To the Wood and light the hides through the eyes.
Put Them On the Trailer


Q
Quick Shift


R
Ragged Edge Rail Birds (Fans)
Rail (dragster)
Rail Job Rat (Poor running car)
Rat Motor
Rattled the Tires
RedLight
Reeled Him In
Ringslot (Chute)
Rolling Start
Rotate The Earth
Rubberband (Blower Belt)
Run It Out The Back Door
Run Out Of Gear
Run The Label
Run Whatcha Brung


S
Sand Pit
Scattered The Mill
Scott Super-Slot
Screwed The Pooch
Semi-Hemi (BBC)
Set On Kill (A Tune Up Condition)
Shake-n-Bake(Funny Car)
Shitbox
Short Shift
Shotgun Motor
Shutdown
Shutdown Area
Shut Em Down
Side Step The Clutch
Sideways
Sidewinder
Sit low
Skating Rink (track condition)
Skins (Tires)
Slippery As Snot (Track Condition)
Smoked 'em
Smoked The Tires
Sneezed The Blower
Snoozing
Speed Shift Spit)
Squeeze It
Staging lane
Stroker
Suck A Valve
Swapped Ends
Swapped Feet


T
Tail Dragger (Wheelstand)
Tater Patch
TE-440
The Beach (Lions DragStrip)
The Can (bellhousing or 98% nitro)
The Eyes
The Good Stuff
The Groove
The Hot Setup
The Juice
The Lights
The Pond (San Fernando Dragstrip)
The Traps
The Tree
The Dale (Irwindale Raceway)
Threw Out The Laundry
Tickle The Tree
Time Slip
Tipping The Can
Tire Shake
Tire Wiper
Tits Up
Took Too Much Stripe
Top Eliminator
Top End (Engine)
Top End (Track)
Top It Off
Top Time
Trailer Queen
Treed' 'Em
Trick Parts
Tricks Are For Kids
Trick Shift
Trick Shit
Trick Stuff
Two Hundred Mile Per Hour Tape


U
Unglue (Blow Engine)
Unhinged (Blew Engine)
Up In Smoke
Up On The Slicks

W
Watch The Flagman's Knees
Weak Dog
Weak Suck
Weedburners
Weedsweepers
Weekend Warrior
Weenies (Tires)
Welded Him To The Tree
Wet Peelies (Burnout)
Whack The Throtle
What a dog
Wheelie
Wheelie Bar
Wheel Pants
Wheelstand
Wheezer
Wienee Roaster (Jet Car)
Windowed The Block
Wrinkle Walls
Whale Motor


XYZ
Yellow Magic
Yellow Death
You snooze, you lose
Zoomies

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