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UK
/dʒɐlˈɒpi/
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[ US /dʒəˈɫɑpi/ ]
[ US /dʒəˈɫɑpi/ ]
NOUN
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a car that is old and unreliable
the fenders had fallen off that old bus
How To Use jalopy In A Sentence
- The other day in the midst of Port-au-Prince, the great degraded capital city that is my home, I saw a car, an old battered car, a jalopy, falter and sputter and come to a slow halt.
- Why drive an old, out-dated jalopy when you can grip the road in a super-sleek sports car. Show Stoppah
- There was an older couple that picked me up who had been together since she was sixteen and he was seventeen, and they were driving around in an old jalopy, holding hands. Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive: Playing For Change's "Groove In G," Plus A Conversation With Author Paul Samuel Dolman
- Well, the Navy just took its first taxi, and it's taking us where we need to go much faster than its old jalopy.
- This jalopy and I got into more trouble than you could shake a stick at! Unleashed
- I remember Dave telling me how surprised he was that George was driving an old jalopy that barely ran.
- He was driving an old jalopy, but when Ernie Reisinger saw the car he said, ‘You can't drive that.
- Willem lost the coin toss, meaning that there was no coin at all and I just gave him one of my carefully patented looks until he broke down like an old jalopy, and so he went to Walgreens for replacement 9-volt batteries. One More Thing
- Also the stuff he's got there would overflow that jalopy of his. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
- My jalopy may be old and ugly but it gets me where I want to go!