13 Words That Have A Totally Different Meaning To Car Lovers

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What it means to everyone else:

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A mystical horse-like creature with a prominent horn.

What it means to car lovers:

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An unattainable car that is super rare, legendary, pursued, loved, idolized, worshipped, fawned over, but remains forever out of reach and is never for sale.

What it means to everyone else:

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A helpful push to reach a high place.

What it means to car lovers:

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The pressure in a turbocharger that forces air into the engine, creating a violent boost of speed that compresses your chest and knocks your skull back into the headrest.

What it means to everyone else:

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Something used to pay for goods and services.

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Something that can be exchanged for parts.

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A thing which is asleep.

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A car that looks slow or ordinary but is actually ridiculously fast, either through factory giddyup or after market engine modification.

What it means to everyone else:

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The Automotive American Dream: a place for his, a place for hers.

What it means for car lovers:

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It means after you install shelving, rolling toolkits and workbench, an air compressor, possibly a few 240v outlets, and detailing gear, you have to park your cars in the driveway.

What it means to everyone else:

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A verb meaning "to pick something up."

What it means to car lovers:

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It's an adjective that describes an automobile raised by a suspension lift, a body lift, or both. There's no such thing as too high.

What it means to everyone else:

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The act of performing a dance routine to the song "Crank That (Soulja Boy)."

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To turn the steering wheel hard to the right or left.

What it means to everyone else:

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An intense indoor cycling class that will make you hate your body.

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Losing traction. Spinning is done intentionally to drift around a corner or enter a power slide.

What it means to everyone else:

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It's the final rights of Goldfish everywhere.

What it means to car lovers:

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It's an adjective describing when the wheels of a car are modified to sit "flush" with the flair of the fenders. #stancenation

What it means to everyone else:

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It's a financial thing that people trade in a very hot, crowded room in New York, and there's ticker paper and cell phones with antennas and everyone is yelling.

What it means to car lovers:

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Potential.

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Short for "not applicable."

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Short for "naturally aspirated," a type of car engine that has no forced air induction and instead relies on good old-fashioned atmospheric pressure to fire those cylinders —sometimes all 12 of them.

What it means to everyone else:

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Basically this.

What it means to car lovers:

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A show car that is never driven on the open road but ferried from show to show in the back of a trailer because it is entirely too precious for this world.

What it means for everyone else:

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A foolish attempt to combat mortality by making an impulsive, flashy purchase intended to restore youth.

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Same.