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struggle-buggy

struggle-buggy noun: an old or beat-up motor vehicle.

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

Forms of struggle-buggy

pluralstruggle-buggies

Questions about struggle-buggy

What does struggle-buggy mean?
Struggle-buggy means an old or beat-up motor vehicle.
What part of speech is struggle-buggy?
Struggle-buggy is a noun.
What is the plural of struggle-buggy?
The plural of struggle-buggy is struggle-buggies.

Words near struggle-buggy in the dictionary

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

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