speeder

[ spee-der ]
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noun
  1. a person or thing that speeds.

  2. a driver who exceeds the legal speed limit.

  1. a small self-propelled railroad car powered by a gasoline engine and used by section hands.

Origin of speeder

1
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at speed, -er1

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How to use speeder in a sentence

  • Coupled with this revival will be an efficiency born of the war needs that will act as a tremendous speeder-up.

    The War After the War | Isaac Frederick Marcosson
  • The patrol car was still hitting above the two-hundred-mile-an-hour mark and was five hundred feet behind the speeder.

    Code Three | Rick Raphael