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a snowmobile that turns frozen wasteland into a roaring playground for the wonderfully reckless.
means a snowmobile — a motorized vehicle on skis and a track for traveling over snow.
from A genericized brand name: Ski-Doo, launched in the late 1950s by Canadian inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier. The story goes it was meant to be 'Ski-Dog' — a snow-going replacement for the sled dog — but a printer's slip turned 'Dog' into 'Doo,' and the happier accident stuck. (Separately, there's an older slang 'skidoo' meaning to leave in a hurry, as in '23 skidoo,' but the snowmobile takes its name from the brand, not that phrase.)
- name origin
- Ski-Doo was a typo; intended name was Ski-Dog
- first model
- Bombardier built the original in 1959
- top speed
- Racing sleds exceed 150 miles per hour
- slang twist
- 23 skidoo meant scram in 1920s America
- engine roar
- Two-stroke motors scream past 8000 rpm
skidoo twenty-three — 1912 charlie chaplin silent film where he enters a magical wonderland by saying '23 skidoo'
bombardier skidoo — snowmobile model manufactured by bombardier recreational products since 1942