chiefly British
as in pram
a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in a fun festival that appeals to adults as well as tots in pushchairs

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Recent Examples of pushchair 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 Finding a travel-friendly buggy only adds to the pushchair pressure. Stirling Kelso, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2022
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Noun
  • 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, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • This is part of the company's years-long push to get rid of kernel extensions and to make drivers and other things run in user mode, where there's less of a risk of buggy code bringing down an entire system (the big CrowdStrike Windows crash?
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Google is working on a fix for a buggy Wear OS 5 update.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In the final stretch before Election Day, with the presidential race in a dead heat, 83-year-old Republican Sandy Tate was volunteering at a Trump campaign booth at the Campbell Farmers Market when a couple pushing their toddler in a stroller passed by.
    Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 3 Nov. 2024
  • My parents would take me to marches in a stroller where crowds of people of all races, faiths, and walks of life came together to fight for the ideals of freedom and opportunity.
    Kizzy Cox, Essence, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Expect to find swivel gliders in airy white linen, cribs and dressers accented with handwoven caning, and daybeds made from honey-toned rattan.
    Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Founded in 2011, Baby2Baby has distributed more than 450 million essentials — including diapers, formula, clothing and cribs — to children in homeless shelters, domestic violence programs, foster care agencies, hospitals, underserved school districts and disaster areas.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In the mid-18th century, rich circles around Europe began sporting early versions of baby carriages.
    Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 17 July 2024
  • Years later, when l was married, my father saw Irene in front of our building pushing a baby carriage holding twins.
    R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024

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“Pushchair.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pushchair. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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