carbie
/ˈkɑːbi/noun Australian /NZ informal
A carburettor: it’s had new rear springs and a new carbie...
- Yeah, if the car has electronic fuel injection (hell, 99% do now, carbie and points, what's that?)
- It's had a new carbie kit and tune.
- I hear carbies scream wide open.
Origin
1930s: abbreviation.
- improbability
- improbable
- improbably
- improbity
- impromptu
- improper
- improper fraction
- improperly
- impropriate
- impropriation
- impropriator
- impropriety
- improv
- improvability
- improvable
- improvableness
- improvably
- improve
- improved wood
- improvement
- improvement grant
- improvement lease
- improver
- improvership
- improvidence