[ UK /d‍ʒɐlˈɒpi/ ]
[ US /dʒəˈɫɑpi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a car that is old and unreliable
    the fenders had fallen off that old bus
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How To Use jalopy In A Sentence

  • Joe leaped out, hoping to find the tyre tracks of Chet's jalopy. THE MYSTERY OF THE CHINESE JUNK
  • After all, he can't have Jane driving a "jalopy" to worship him on Sundays, now can he? The Iron Fist of Jesus
  • ‘Hey kids, I like your style,’ he drawled, peering through the fug of smoke, and the dim light of his dated jalopy.
  • `Need a hand with your bumf, Mark, or can you make it to the jalopy ? MUSIC FOR BOYS
  • **I may have incorporated some words/terms/concepts that amuse me (Mongol, ghee, Gobi/gobi (which amuses me because it's both the Mongol word for “waterless place” and the Hindi word for "cauliflower"), globetrotting, jalopy, and the names Pierce, Otto and Ratzinger). The Happy List: Words, + Brooklyn Arden Contest!
  • Miscellaneous brays punctuate Asa's story, which is interrupted by a cutaway to a local funkster piloting his jalopy across the steppe, rocking out to "Rivers of Babylon. SF Weekly | Complete Issue
  • a hopped-up jalopy
  • The '56 Mercury sputtered along like an old jalopy.
  • Always a good rule, but you may be tempted to just load up the old jalopy, even for an overnighter.
  • After the wreck, the driver decides to try and make it home, dodging merging headlights like schools of blonde fractioning into failed deliveries and distances (D) tantamount with words likedog trackorjalopy — all traveling at a pace of 35 miles per hour through rain. Probability
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