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One likely to die on the road?
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jalopy
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But long before that jalopy set out on Route 66, the wild oat had done its landscape-altering work. ▪ The front fender of his jalopy is bashed and the seats are bedecked with paper ribbons, decorations from the dance. ▪ What ...
Usage examples of jalopy.
SKULL stretched the Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Sanitation in the back seat of his jalopy, with the uneasy feeling that he was being watched.
In an argument, the truck would have the better of it far too quickly, simply by turning head-on, making for the body of the old jalopy and turning it upside down.
The grey scavenging monster cut in and out between them, the jalopy still behind it.
Only a high-bodied old jalopy standing crosswise in the gutter rose between the massacre-fleet and what was left of the precinct men--but in that jalopy was the Skull Killer.
Behind the comparatively feeble steel barricade of the black jalopy was the patrol wagon with Miriam in it.
Like the jalopy, the bright new sedan was equipped with a powerful Diesel motor which Jeffrey had designed and installed himself.
And also like the jalopy, its smooth painted sides were of heavy plated steel.
Listen to the pounding old jalopy with all your senses, for a change of tone, a variation of rhythm may mean- a week here?
The older officer walked back to the portable warning light and rolled it on its four wheels to the rear plate of the jalopy where another magnalock secured it to the car.
At four hundred miles an hour, the body of the old jalopy fell the twelve inches to the pavement and both front wheels caved under.
The jalopy swerved around a corner through a wind that smelled of turpentine and whitewash.
An hour later Willy and Samuel climbed back into their jalopy, which someone, they never knew who, had washed and polished while they were in the barber-shop.
But then the jalopy moved and took Willy Bersinger and Samuel Fitts with it, their hair cut, oiled, and neat on their sweet-smelling skulls, their cheeks pink-shaven, their fingernails flashing the sun.
There was no sign of any jalopy or pickup truck and it occurred to him that Ben and Roberto might not show.
And shut him up behind bars, But then the Angels of Milagro Arrived in their jalopy cars.