stock car
noun
1
: a latticed railroad boxcar for carrying livestock
2
: a racing car having the basic chassis of a commercially produced assembly-line model
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Given iRacing's reputation, NASCAR 25 may give players the closest thing to getting in the cockpit of an American stock car.
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Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
The event will be held on Naval Base Coronado, an operational Navy complex better known for launching aircraft carriers and training elite forces than hosting NASCAR stock cars.
—Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
For Becky, stock car racing was very much an extended family affair.
—Jan Wagner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2025
Like her adoptive parents, Barbara Cowan (née Crane) and Paul Gilbert, who were actors, Gilbert revealed that her biological parents also came from a background in entertainment — her birth mother was an exotic dancer and her birth father was a stock car racer and musician.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 8 July 2025
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Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
The event will be held on Naval Base Coronado, an operational Navy complex better known for launching aircraft carriers and training elite forces than hosting NASCAR stock cars.
—Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
For Becky, stock car racing was very much an extended family affair.
—Jan Wagner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2025
Like her adoptive parents, Barbara Cowan (née Crane) and Paul Gilbert, who were actors, Gilbert revealed that her biological parents also came from a background in entertainment — her birth mother was an exotic dancer and her birth father was a stock car racer and musician.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 8 July 2025
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“Stock car.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stock%20car. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.
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