as in crate
a dilapidated old automobile his parents gave him an old jalopy for school

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Recent Examples of jalopy Golf carts resemble the Joad’s family jalopy in the film classic, The Grapes of Wrath, packed to the hilt with jumbo, floating water mats, some 20 feet in length, colossal floats better suited for the Macy’s Day Parade, and the largest sand robber of them all, the canvas beach cabana. Steve Cambria, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024 Do your annoying neighbors constantly park their old jalopy in front of your home? Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 30 July 2024 What the Aztecs need is to turn the most boring offense in the school’s modern day history into an exciting adventure, and Lewis goes 100 mph, which is 100-mph faster than Hoke’s jalopy. Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023 Kids in jalopies cruised at night, listening to Mexican pirate radio. Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for jalopy
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crate
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  • Some French gunner, now long dead, had lifted it from a crate, shoved it into the breech of a cannon and fired it during that horrible year of 1916.
    Michael Jerome Plunkett September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The TikTok clip shows the guilty-looking canine sitting in his crate after a moment of destructive chewing.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Jalopy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jalopy. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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