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单词 jalopy
释义
jalopy
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n

A jalopy is an old car that isn't working very well. You'd never call a new, smooth-running car a jalopy.
There are a lot of insulting words in English, mostly for people. This insult is for a car: a jalopy is a rundown, beat-up, falling apart car that needs to be replaced. You'll never see a car salesman say "Check out our selection of jalopies!" A jalopy might have been a great car at one point, but it has seen better days.
WORD FAMILY
jalopy: jalopies
USAGE EXAMPLES
Devices like the Automatic Pro can bring almost any vehicle—even a jalopy you bought when *NSYNC was popular—into the smartphone age.
Wall Street Journal(Aug 31, 2016)
Poverty set upon him to stay while he was lying beneath a burned-out jalopy.
Los Angeles Times(Aug 14, 2016)
The characters made fudge and kept up Teddy-bear collections, called their cars “jalopies” and entered radio contests.
The New Yorker(Jul 07, 2016)
n a car that is old and unreliable
Syn|Hyper
bus, heap
auto, automobile, car, machine, motorcar
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
dysphemism
an offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one
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