单词 | gas buggy |
释义 | > as lemmasgas buggy gas buggy n. North American (now chiefly archaic and historical) a motor car, esp. one that runs on petrol or diesel; cf. gasoline buggy n. at gasoline n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1901 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 3 June 2/4 The gas buggy, with its impudent snort and convulsive chortles. 1950 Pop. Mech. Mar. 88/1 (headline) Japan electrifies the gas buggy. 1994 I. Stangoe Cariboo-Chilcotin 50 When the horse gave way to snorting gas buggies, it ushered in a new era in transportation. 2004 Windsor (Ontario) Star (Nexis) 20 Apr. b1 Hybrids will soon be involved in motor sports—either on their own against the gas buggies, where they would have a fuel advantage, or in groups against each other. < as lemmas |
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