jalopy

Significado (English)

1. An old, dilapidated or unpretentious automobile.
2. (slang) A hip, cool, groovy automobile.

Conceptos

bote

⛵

cacharro

fotinga

carro destartalado

Synonyms

old conveyance

dilapidated conveyance

clunker

bus

🚌

rattle-trap

heap

hooptie

crate

rattletrap

old car

bucket

🪣

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/d͡ʒəˈlɒ.pi/

Etimología (English)

Unknown. Perhaps from Jalapa, Mexico (now Xalapa), to whose tweak yards used cars were often sent from New Orleans starting in the 1920s. First recorded written use in 1924.