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 The main competitive groups are motorcycles, buggies, cars, SSVs, and trucks, with sub-categories. Sue Mead, Popular Science, 13 Feb. 2025 However, a ‘buggy’ release can cause long-term reputational harm to a franchise, so sidelining FM25 to ensure FM26 is up to standard may be the best long-term decision. Elias Burke, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025 Has your internet service been a little buggy lately? Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Feb. 2025 New flashing lights buggy law is too flashy for some Amish. Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for buggy
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Noun
  • No trace of the 10-foot pram used by Ralph has ever been found.
    Robert E. Houle, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Bella recently had puppies, which were sleeping in an old portable baby crib inside the tent, and Vazquez hated to leave them alone.
    CalMatters, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Pettersen admitted that the trip was challenging—think about the sheer amount of newborn gear that babies need with bottles, sound machines, travel cribs, and more.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Witnesses recalled chaos as families fled the parade route, abandoning chairs and strollers.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Long airport hallways are no longer a worry when your toddler has a seat (with a seatbelt), leaving your other hand free for another bag or stroller.
    Ramona Saviss, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Imagine visitors from around the world paying tribute to the cradle of civilization, enjoying all of Syria's majestic nature and history in safety and security.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
  • His lightning-quick, single-leg takedown went right into a cradle.
    Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025

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“Buggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buggy. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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