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
The city’s street traffic committee studied what happened when police officers stopped directing street cars, buggies and automobiles at busy intersections, including this one.
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Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
Just a buggy ride or three-minute walk away, the Son Antem golf club boasts two high-quality 18-hole courses: the East Course and the West Course.
—Shea Peters, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2024
The buggy was a very basic wooden set-up, and the bumpy dirt road meant some sore rear ends, but my kids enjoyed it, and the two guides who came along with us were excellent.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 26 Dec. 2024
People were festive, unbothered, walking around, dashing into shops and restaurants, pushing kids in buggies.
—Gwen Faulkenberry, arkansasonline.com, 5 Dec. 2024
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Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
Just a buggy ride or three-minute walk away, the Son Antem golf club boasts two high-quality 18-hole courses: the East Course and the West Course.
—Shea Peters, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2024
The buggy was a very basic wooden set-up, and the bumpy dirt road meant some sore rear ends, but my kids enjoyed it, and the two guides who came along with us were excellent.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 26 Dec. 2024
People were festive, unbothered, walking around, dashing into shops and restaurants, pushing kids in buggies.
—Gwen Faulkenberry, arkansasonline.com, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for buggy
Noun
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Once upon a time, Ronaldo would have been prone to a strop — comically throwing his toys out of the pram and throwing his arms about as his team-mates looked on at one of the greatest players ever losing his head.—
Elias Burke,
The Athletic,
18 Aug. 2024
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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
Noun
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Before leaving, Valenzuela bought a crib and a baby mattress for his 22-year-old daughter’s firstborn.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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One commenter suggested the noise could be E blowing raspberries on the crib, but the mom pointed out that the crib's thick fabric coverings make such a noise unlikely.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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This year, as families with baby strollers and groups of cinema fans ambled by amid the thousands on the street on a warmer-than-expected Friday afternoon, the retailers were booming.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
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Runners, walkers, joggers, strollers, wheelchair users and four-legged friends are welcome.—
CHRISTINA MAYO,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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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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Filmmakers from Denis Villeneuve to Brian De Palma have paid homage to the film's famous scene of a baby carriage careening down the staircase.—
Michael Robinson Chávez,
NPR,
6 Jan. 2025
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Project Sidewalk– Use your mobile device to report the condition of city sidewalks to improve navigation for anyone using wheeled transport, especially wheelchairs, but also grocery carts, baby carriages, delivery dollies and wheeled luggage.—
Bob Hirshon,
Discover Magazine,
20 Dec. 2024
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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When Alcmene gave birth (by Zeus) to Hercules, Hera sent two snakes to kill him in his cradle, though the infant strangled them with his bare hands.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
20 Jan. 2025
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The Indonesian city is home to some of the greatest Hindu and Buddhist temples, a thriving food scene and an area known as the Cosmological Axis, a cradle of Javanese culture.—
Scott Mowbray Amrita Chandradas,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Buggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buggy. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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