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American in rush with equipment on rear of vehicle to try out something? (3,1,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fly a kite

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'rear of vehicle to try out something?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'american in rush with equipment' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rush' becomes 'fly' (both can mean to hurry).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'equipment' becomes 'kite' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'fly'+'kite'='flykite'
'a' inserted inside 'flykite' is 'FLY A KITE'.

'on' is the link.

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(Other definitions for fly a kite that I've seen before include "Pilot" , "What co-pilots do" , "Test opinion by circulating rumours" , "Release information to test public opinion" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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