chirping

Squealing the tires during a gear change. Mentions of this are extremely common in car and car-mod forums.

Past tense: chirped.

Chirping gears requires high-revving whilst doing the gear changes and can be done on all decent stock models (with manual transmissions) through first and second. Chirping third is reserved for sports cars, and chirping fourth is a rare occurrence. Note: this reduces the life of your clutch, but is a lot of fun.

I was chirping third at the track today!

Dude, I totally chirped fourth in my insert souped-up car today!!!

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