struggle-buggy

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struggle-buggy (plural struggle-buggies)

  1. (US slang) An old or beat-up motor vehicle.
    • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, New York: Random House, page 87:
      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.
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