Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The name of the show, and the tagline "Lose the race – lose your ride", refer to common slang of pink slips representing a vehicle's title document recording ownership, and the derivative street-racing phrase, "racing for pinks," meaning a race in which the winner earns the loser's car. (In California, until recently, the vehicle title was on ...
Street races are sometimes wagered on, either by the participants or observers. This is the origin of the term "racing for pink slips" (which means that the winner keeps the opponent's car), which inspired the 2005 Speed Channel series Pinks and is the primary wager shown in The Fast and The Furious films. This, in real life, seldom happens ...
The name "pink slip" has its origin in California certificates of ownership before 1988, which were printed on pink paper. Current California titles have broad vertical stripes of teal, yellow, and pink with a green border; while Illinois titles are blue, pink, and blue with a purple border; Pennsylvania and Nevada titles are blue with a blue ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The "pink slip" is the vehicle's registration, so "racing for pink slips" means the winner gets the other car." The phrase was itself the inspiration for the name of a band "Pink Slip Daddy" formed by Palmyra Delran in 1988. Martinevans123 09:58, 14 February 2016 (UTC) The Little Deuce Coupe album article says this:
For some, it will mean pink slips. Jeanne Sahadi, CNN. November 28, 2023 at 6:00 AM. Pavlina Popovska/E+/Getty Images. Layoffs are never welcome news to employees. But they bring an extra bite ...
What started as "The Lying Down Game" a few years ago in Australia has recently resurfaced with a new name. The idea behind "planking" is simple. People take turns lying down, face down, with ...
Pink slip may refer to: Vehicle title, in the United States, also known as "certificate of title", a legal form, establishing a person or business as the legal owner of a vehicle; Pink slip, a deprecated vehicle inspection paper in Australia; Pink slip (employment), a form of termination notice