gun the engine

Examples (10)

• He likes to gun his engine at every red light to show off his car.
• The driver gunned the engine and sped away from the scene.
• Stop gunning the engine; you're just wasting fuel and making noise.
• She gunned the engine in frustration when she got stuck in traffic.
• In the movie, the hero always guns the engine of his muscle car before a chase.
• The motorcycle rider gunned his engine, and the sound echoed through the quiet street.
• I could hear the teenagers gunning their engines in the parking lot all night.
• As the race was about to start, all the drivers began to gun their engines.
• Before pulling out, he gunned the engine once as a warning to the other car.
• If you keep gunning the engine like that, you're going to damage it.