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lay rubber
verb as in accelerate
Example Sentences
To achieve a stamped cobblestone look, concrete finishers broadcast dry pigments into the wet concrete, mix these into the top layer of the concrete and then lay rubber mats onto the concrete that have the cobblestone texture and outline.
It won't exactly lay rubber, but it accelerates efficiently and comes up to freeway speed without complaining.
Though the Oak Ridge Shelby Cobra traded the throaty rumble of a V-8 for the purr of a 100-kilowatt electric motor, it could still lay rubber, going from zero to 60 mph in less than five seconds.
All day the Army engineers, interrupted by enemy fire, had labored to lay rubber pontoons, then wood crosspieces, finally steel tracks just wide enough for the 28-ton General Grants.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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