high-center
See also: high center
English edit
Alternative forms edit
high-centre, high center, high centre
Verb edit
high-center (third-person singular simple present high-centers, present participle high-centering, simple past and past participle high-centered)
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to become stranded with all wheels off the ground.
- 2010, Darrell Spencer, CAUTION Men in Trees, →ISBN, page 113:
- What does he think, that we're setting him up, that he'll ease his truck along the dirt road, high-center it in a rut, and then get jumped and die defending his pizzas?
- 2009, Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, →ISBN, page 83:
- I had to be careful driving toward the river so I wouldn't high-center the car on a boulder and break the crankcase.
- 2006, Raj Madhavan, Elena R. Messina, James Sacra Albus, Intelligent Vehicle Systems: A 4D/RCS Approach, →ISBN, page 274:
- For example, positive obstacles such as fallen trees directly along the prescribed path would high-center the vehicle and negative obstacles such as culverts near certain intersections in the Urban course went undetected and became hazards for the XUV.
- (intransitive) To become stranded with all wheels off the ground.