crotch-rocket

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crotch rocket

slang A motorcycle, often specifically a Japanese sports bike. Some dude on a crotch rocket just shot past me doing about 100. Of course I wouldn't get a crotch rocket like that—I'm a Harley man.
See also: crotch, rocket
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

crotch-rocket

n. a motorcycle. (For some, only foreign motorcycles are so called.) I can buy a nice car for less than you paid for that crotch-rocket.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • dooded
  • dude
  • dude oneself up
  • dude up
  • duded up
  • boogie
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In no way are they associated with the crotch-rocket adrenal in junkies that Mr Banks also describes.
Defendant made arguments regarding crotch-rockets and motorcycle gangs, according to plaintiffs counsel.