jalopy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dʒəˈlɒ.pi/
jalopy (plural jalopies)
- (US, dated) An old, dilapidated or unpretentious automobile.
- 1979, Jack Kerouac, On the road, page 3:
- Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he was actually born on the road, when his parents were passing through Salt Lake City in 1926, in a jalopy, on their way to Los Angeles.
- 2003, Terrance Dicks & Barry Letts, Deadly Reunion, chapter 22:
- There's only a rough track and I doubt if that jalopy of yours will make it.
- 1979, Jack Kerouac, On the road, page 3:
- (US, dated, slang) A hip, cool, groovy automobile.
- banger, beater, bucket of bolts, clunker, crate, flivver, hooptie, junker, rattletrap, rustbucket, tin Lizzie,lemon
- French: guimbarde, carriole, tas de ferraille
- German: alte Kiste; Klapperkiste; Schrottkiste
- Italian: catorcio, macinino
- Portuguese: calhambeque chaco
- Russian: драндуле́т
- Spanish: cacharro, carro destartalado, carraca, tartana
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