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speedo
noun
A speedometer, particularly one in a race car or other automobile.
Exact(60)
Ease off the accelerator and as the speedo winds down the capacitors charge up again.Such a capacitor gauge could become a common sight on the dashboards of the future.
Navigator Mark Andrews forgot the batteries that power the digital speedo.
Other beloved traits were ironed out inside too, with the trademark centrally located speedo moved to a binnacle in front of the driver; out too went the dinky toggle switches.
This is still a Mini, so it has more charm than George Hamilton III trying to get a traffic warden to put her pen away, from its cartoonish interior with its toggle switches and dinner-plate speedo, to the lovely, darty, eager way it steers, accelerates and changes up and down through its slick six-speed 'box.
It was thoroughly wet when we drove the vehicle, but we just nailed it at full throttle and its back wheels held the road in a vice-like grip as the speedo blazed its way past the ton.
On I-15 in Idaho, after we met a four-wheeler getting a speedo on the shoulder from a bear with flashing lights, Ainsworth turned on the scanner.
Truck drivers would say, 'That's not a full-grown bear.' " It had been well over a decade since he had acquired his last speedo.
Where was the speedo?
A speedo was a speeding violation.
Who was Chaplin's character Alvo yelling down the phone to on the second night while Speedo Man was energetically "socialising" (he's all class this guy) with the girl from Bradford upstairs?
Usually in dramas, criminals associate with other criminals, but he has a middle class set of friends – an accountant (Speedo Man) an university lecturer (Glenister), a lawyer-turned antiques dealer (Simm).
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