DEMOLITION DERBY


Meaning of DEMOLITION DERBY in English

1. a contest in which drivers deliberately and repeatedly crash old cars into each other, on a racetrack or in an enclosed area, with the winner being the last vehicle still moving after all others have been disabled.

2. Informal. any event or circumstance having the chaotically destructive character of such a competition.

[ 1950-55 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .