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tin lizzie

alt. 1 (context informal dated English) The Ford Motor Company's Model T automobile. 2 (context informal by extension English) A small, unpretentious, vintage automobile, especially one that is in run-down condition. n. 1 (context informal dated English) The Ford Motor Company's Model T automobile. 2 (context informal by extension English) A small, unpretentious, vintage automobile, especially one that is in run-down condition.

tin lizzie

n. (alternative form of tin Lizzie English)

Usage examples of "tin lizzie".

She even learned how to start the car with the key instead of the crank - tuning her ear to that particular buzz in the ignition coils that said there was gas in the cylinder and the pistons happened to be in the right position, though she never knew (if the key start managed to work) whether the Tin Lizzie would take off forward or backward.

When Halloween came each year my Aunt Neva piled me and my brother into her old tin lizzie to motor out into October Country to gather cornstalks and field pumpkins.

Piled his tin lizzie with dregs from his shop just the other day, pulled out of the no-parking zone in front of his place, and headed east.

Maybe half an hour later, Bella heard the old tin lizzie rattle up the alley behind the apartments.