whoa up
v.— «Stewart couldn’t “whoa up” his car, as they say in NASCAR, and rammed into Sadler.» —“Busch smokes competition to win at Dover” by Bill Fleischman Daily News (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) June 2, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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