jalopy
IPA: dʒʌɫˈɑpi
noun
- (US, dated) An old, dilapidated or unpretentious automobile.
- (US, dated, slang) A hip, cool, groovy automobile.
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Examples of "jalopy" in Sentences
- He owns an old yellow jalopy.
- Be careful with jalopy when disassembling parts.
- A really beaten up old jalopy is called a skedonk.
- Jalopy races began in the 1930s and ended in the 1960s.
- Jake, get rid of that crappy blue jalopy in the garage.
- Breithaupt raced Jalopies in the California Jalopy Association.
- It turned out that he owned the same jalopy that Mr. Lodge now owned.
- The property was used as a jalopy racetrack during the 1940s and early 1950s.
- But there's little he can do to correct the fact that he's inherited a doomed jalopy.
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