1. a person who drives faster than the legal speed limit
2. a small railroad handcar or motorcar used for track inspection
Usage: railroad terminology

Examples

• The police officer pulled over the speeder on the highway.
• That speeder was going twenty miles over the limit.
• The railroad workers used a speeder to inspect the tracks.
• A yellow speeder carried the maintenance crew down the line.
• The judge fined the speeder two hundred dollars.
• The old speeder chugged along the abandoned railway.