RACER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does racer mean? 

• RACER (noun)
  The noun RACER has 4 senses:

1. someone who drives racing cars at high speeds

2. a fast car that competes in races

3. an animal that races

4. slender fast-moving North American snakes

  Familiarity information: RACER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RACER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who drives racing cars at high speeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

automobile driver; race driver; racer

Hypernyms ("racer" is a kind of...):

driver (the operator of a motor vehicle)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "racer"):

finisher (a racing driver who finishes a race)

Instance hyponyms:

Barney Oldfield; Berna Eli Oldfield; Oldfield (United States race driver who was the first to drive faster than a mile a minute (1878-1946))

Derivation:

race (cause to move fast or to rush or race)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fast car that competes in races

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

race car; racer; racing car

Hypernyms ("racer" is a kind of...):

auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)

Meronyms (parts of "racer"):

cockpit (seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "racer"):

finisher (a race car that finishes a race)

stock car (a racing car with the basic chassis of a commercially available car)

Derivation:

race (compete in a race)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An animal that races

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("racer" is a kind of...):

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "racer"):

greyhound (a tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog)

steeplechaser (a horse trained to run in steeplechases)

finisher (an animal that wins in a contest of speed)

Derivation:

race (compete in a race)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Slender fast-moving North American snakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("racer" is a kind of...):

colubrid; colubrid snake (mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "racer"):

black racer; blacksnake; Coluber constrictor (blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet)

Coluber hippocrepis; horseshoe whipsnake (slender fast-moving Eurasian snake)

Holonyms ("racer" is a member of...):

Coluber; genus Coluber (racers)

 Context examples 

He was flying like a racer.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every thought of his soul had been set full-stretch, like a racer, on that money; well, he was brought up, in a single second, dead; and he kept his head, found his temper, and changed his plan before the others had had time to realize the disappointment.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

These animals include jaguars, Spix's macaws, harpy eagles, vinaceous-breasted amazons, crowned solitary eagles, hawksbill turtles, green turtles, tarantulas, Amazon false coral snakes, Brazilian green racer snakes, cream-colored woodpeckers, blue spiny starfish, sharks, seahorses, piaba fish, sawfish, bluefin tuna, brown howler monkeys.

(Over 300 animal species threatened in Bahia, Agência Brasil)