The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CARAPACE
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More clues leading to the result CARAPACE
- Motor at speed in soft top? Hardly
- Shell makes vehicle fast
- Shield quickly attached to vehicle
- Shell of vehicle quickly assembled
- Charlie, a star popular musician, is a tough case
- Get cover quickly behind vehicle
- Case of vehicle speeding
- Walk behind vehicle with a protective covering
- Vehicle rapidly becoming a shell
- Vehicle takes a step to become a hardtop
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What does CARAPACE mean?
CARAPACE noun- A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
- In figurative use