glasspack

noun

glasspack

noun

Etymology From glass + pack.

1

Automotive, Transport, Vehicles A kind of automobile muffler in which the exhaust gas passes straight through the center of the muffler. It consists of a smaller tube centered inside a larger tube that is enlarged or swollen in the middle, the gap between tubes being filled with fiberglass.

  • That's an illegal muffler, Alan thought. A glasspack. I could cite him for that.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

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