buggy

as in pram
a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in we'll need a new buggy if we have another baby

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Recent Examples of buggy No cars are allowed on Hamilton Island, so guests can get around on foot or by buggy or shuttle. Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2025 Working people could purchase a simple tent, one-burner stove, and a few other provisions, load up the horse and buggy and head to a park or campground just outside the city. Time, 3 June 2025 Accommodations range from 21 airy beachfront villas with private pools and tropical walled gardens,to five hilltop, three-to-five-bedroom grand residences featuring sprawling outdoor living spaces and spectacular views from sunrise to sunset, along with a personal golf buggy, butler, and nanny. Alexandra Kirkman, Robb Report, 29 May 2025 Weir got back into his good black buggy and turned around. Louise Erdrich, New Yorker, 25 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for buggy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buggy
Noun
  • One person suggested Cousins return to the spot on a daily basis and try to strike up a relationship with the septuagenarian pushing the pram.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 May 2025
  • No trace of the 10-foot pram used by Ralph has ever been found.
    Robert E. Houle, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • As a bonus, the matching Yuzu crib is ultra-convertible, with a whopping eight different configurations — from bassinet to a junior bed.
    Briana Feigon, Architectural Digest, 19 June 2025
  • Two screenshots from the viral video showing Emma and Spencer in the crib.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • For me, the best affordable strollers are the way to go.
    Chaunie Brusie, Parents, 18 June 2025
  • Some protesters held posters in one hand and pushed strollers or gripped their dogs’ leashes with the other.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • Correspondent Serna Altschul looks at the history of strollers, prams and pushchairs, and at the designs and aesthetics of today's super-smooth strollers.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 18 May 2024
  • Riley’s custom pushchair, designed by Adaptive Star,has no gears but does have a safety brake to slow downhill runs.
    Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023
Noun
  • Universal drink caddies that attach to the handles of suitcases and baby buggies.
    Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the parade highlights will include 14 pipe and drum marching bands, students from Irish dance schools performing, an appearance by Consulate General of Ireland Council Kevin Byrne and the original baby buggy parade float from the first parade in 1979.
    Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • His first time down there, he was appalled to discover it was filled with a thick layer of dust, and the clutter of bicycles and a baby carriage.
    Orly Halpern, Time, 18 June 2025
  • Stand at the top or bottom of the stairs, and watch the elderly and those struggling with canes, walkers, baby carriages and prostheses.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • In a 1923 address to the British Royal Society of the Arts, one Samuel Sewell chided his fellow-researchers for having failed to research the history of a device as common and useful as the ubiquitous perambulator, or pram.
    Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
  • One perambulator holding big packages and a sleeping red-haired baby clutching the strings of two round, red balloons.
    Robert Richardson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • There’s also a separate accessory cradle to hold the combination and crevice tools, pet tool, flexible tool, and dust bags.
    Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The president was undeterred, and the flights resumed the very next day, filled with cardboard file boxes that had been repurposed into makeshift cradles.
    Jim Axelrod June 9, CBS News, 9 June 2025

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“Buggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buggy. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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