pram

chiefly British
as in buggy
a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in like other trendy Notting Hill couples, they bought a fancy pram for the first baby

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Recent Examples of pram No trace of the 10-foot pram used by Ralph has ever been found. Robert E. Houle, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2025 Our four-month-old slept in his pram by the pool while our oldest drank mocktails, took Thai boxing lessons and collected shells from the beach. Marylou Costa, Contributor, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2024 Showing their commitment to all things Halloween, the couple even had a pram filled with baby ogres in tow. Vogue, 18 Oct. 2024 There’s been a turning of the tables since the website conducted the study in 2021, when baby strollers stood at 67% and puppy prams at 33%,per the Korea Times. Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pram
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Noun
  • Like the rest of the state, winters there are bitterly cold, summers are hot, muggy, and buggy.
    Paddy O'Connell, Outside Online, 1 May 2025
  • Video meetings usually work in a mobile browser, but the experience is buggy and somewhat unintuitive.
    John Brandon, PC Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • In the never-satisfied province of Quebec, which was beginning to talk about another sovereignty referendum, the electorate decided to put the toys back in the crib and get behind Carney on the assumption that there may be no Canada left to leave once Trump is done with us.
    Ian Cooper, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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“Pram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pram. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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