raceabout

[ reys-uh-bout ]

noun

1. a small, sloop-rigged racing yacht with a short bowsprit.

Word History and Origins

Origin of raceabout¹

1895–1900, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase race about

Example Sentences

And a fully restored 1910 Simplex raceabout, with double-chain drive and 90-h.p. engine, was offered for a thumping $9,500 v. about $6,000 new.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among them: a 1929 Bugatti Royale, a 1913 Mercer Raceabout, a 1909 American Underslung, a 1913 Peugeot, plus a mint collection of Bentleys. the $15,000 British sports car that Cunningham generally drives when he is not racing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, when a bright yellow 1913 Mercer Raceabout, model 35-J, with a "monocle" windshield, restored by retired Los Angeles Fireman Harry Johnson, was driven into the auction tent, it rated a round of applause.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meantime, pictures of Mussolini in his raceabout appeared all over the world last week, except in Italy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reason for this late activity was very easy to understand, too, once one realized that Hogarty’s clientele––especially that of his Monday mornings––was composed quite entirely of that type of leisurely young man who rarely pointed the nose of his tub-seated raceabout below Forty-second Street, except for the benefits of a few rather desultory rounds under Hogarty’s tutelage, a shocking plunge beneath an icy shower, and the all pervading sense of physical well-being resultant upon a half hour’s kneading of none too firm muscles on the marble slabs.

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