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 Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy apps coded by AI assistants. Angela Yang, NBC news, 31 Aug. 2025 The buggy, which was pulling an unoccupied buggy, was struck from behind by an eastbound 2018 International tractor-trailer, the sheriff's office said. Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025 The group of cousins has a blast together, playing and riding little kid-sized buggies around. Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025 The buggy maker gave way to the auto industry and the auto mechanic, and society moved forward. Matt K. Lewis, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for buggy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buggy
Noun
  • Babies here are moved around in sleds, not prams.
    David Greig September 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • What message would that send to those same players: throw your toys out of the pram and get your move?
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The loungers also come with crib bumpers, which are banned by federal law for a high risk of causing breathing obstruction that can result in injury or death.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Youbeien Crib Mobiles Recalled Over Battery Ingestion Hazard Youbeien crib mobiles, sold on Amazon by GKKBSJ, have been recalled due to unsafe battery compartments in their remote controls.
    Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Parents can book a nanny to join them for the day — helping with strollers, diaper changes, mobile orders, or staying with a child who isn’t tall enough for certain rides — or hire a nanny to focus solely on the kids while parents enjoy the parks on their own.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Most doorknob covers are composed of hard plastic that looks like the plastic used in children’s toys and strollers.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Parents arrive with younger siblings in pushchairs and head out to watch the session that is due to start in 10 minutes.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 4 July 2025
  • 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
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
  • The two were spotted pushing a baby carriage together while going on a walk in London, England, according to photos published by The Sun.
    Georgia Slater, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The family received many charitable donations from the community amid their birth in the Great Depression era, including a rent-free home, a custom baby carriage and money, according to the paper.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 24 July 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
  • The university known as the cradle of astronauts will soon send a few more folks to the final frontier.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Finally, one of the tall cranes lifted the boat out of the water, high into the air, and carefully swung it over and down onto the team’s boat cradle, on shore.
    Jan Wagner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Buggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buggy. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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