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struggle-buggies

struggle-buggies is the plural of struggle-buggy.

Meaning of struggle-buggy

Noun

struggle-buggy (plural struggle-buggies)

  1. (US, slang) An old or beat-up motor vehicle.
    • My struggle-buggy was getting to look like a rinky-dink old tin can on wheels, so when I got back to Chicago that Fall I traded it in for a Willys Knight brougham sedan.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tea Don’t Do You that Way”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 87

Questions about struggle-buggies

What is struggle-buggies the plural of?
Struggle-buggies is the plural of struggle-buggy.

Words near struggle-buggies in the dictionary

  1. struggle kids
  2. struggle meal
  3. struggle meals
  4. struggle session
  5. struggle sessions
  6. struggle-buggies
  7. struggle-buggy
  8. struggled
  9. struggleful
  10. struggleism
  11. struggleless

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