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
Full of personality, this place is known for its wall-to-wall kitschy vintage collection (a buggy from the horse-and-buggy days hangs from the ceiling) and a Jiffy Burger that’s slathered with peanut butter.
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Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
The 3-hour tour takes you to remote areas of the park by way of an elevated buggy seat optimized for scenic viewing.
—Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2025
Lonnie Yoder, 84, was killed when his Amish buggy flipped due to intense winds in Middlebury, Ind. shortly before 6 p.m. local time on Sunday.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
An armed man allegedly robbed two Amish buggies in western Pennsylvania, according to police.
—Megan Forrester, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2025
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Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
The 3-hour tour takes you to remote areas of the park by way of an elevated buggy seat optimized for scenic viewing.
—Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2025
Lonnie Yoder, 84, was killed when his Amish buggy flipped due to intense winds in Middlebury, Ind. shortly before 6 p.m. local time on Sunday.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
An armed man allegedly robbed two Amish buggies in western Pennsylvania, according to police.
—Megan Forrester, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for buggy
Noun
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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
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No trace of the 10-foot pram used by Ralph has ever been found.—
Robert E. Houle,
Outdoor Life,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The baby was captured sleeping on his mother's chest, stretching his limbs out while laying in a crib and sucking on a pacifier while looking at his mother.—
Kayla Grant,
People.com,
11 May 2025
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Next come the gadgets: the Snoo, a shimmying bassinet that allegedly makes babies sleep for at least an hour longer than a typical crib; the Nanit, an eye-of-Sauron-style video monitor; Owlet, a sock-like heart-rate and oxygen sensor that turns your baby’s crib into a mini NICU.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
5 May 2025
Noun
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My neighbors are a veterinarian who wheels around his crusty white dog in a stroller and an elderly man.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
13 May 2025
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When a driver hit and killed two women pushing a baby boy in a stroller in Winnetka on Friday, Mudassir Rashid and other family members were left in shock.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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Universal drink caddies that attach to the handles of suitcases and baby buggies.—
Theresa Holland,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Nov. 2023
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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
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People left behind baby carriages that look like baby carriages looked in the ’50s and beer cans with pull tops that haven’t been made that way since the ’60s or ’70s.—
James Barron,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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As a young father pushed a baby carriage on a windy morning in Broward last week, streams of leaves and flowers cascaded down from a nearby towering oak tree.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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This is a custom layer within the mattress designed to adapt and cradle sleepers at any position.—
Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
9 May 2025
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Image Cardinal Parolin grew up in Schiavon, a small town in the northern Italian region of Veneto that is known as a cradle of popes.—
Jason Horowitz,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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“Buggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buggy. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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