Hoodline

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The shape of the hood of a car.

    "As rooflines have become lower engines have become larger and hoodlines correspondingly higher. These opposing trends have dealt a serious blow to the driver's situation. That is, we have placed him on the floor so that he can barely see ..."

Example

More examples

"As rooflines have become lower engines have become larger and hoodlines correspondingly higher. These opposing trends have dealt a serious blow to the driver's situation. That is, we have placed him on the floor so that he can barely see ..."

Etymology

From hood + line.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.