Jalopy

Definition: Jalopy

Jalopy

Noun

1. A car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "jalopy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references)

Synonyms: Jalopy

Vehicle

Motor car, automobile, limousine, car, auto, jalopy, clunker, lemon, flivver, coupe, sedan, two-door sedan, four-door sedan, luxury sedan; wheels, sports car, roadster, gran turismo, jeep, four-wheel drive vehicle, electric car, steamer; golf cart, electric wagon; taxicab, cab, taxicoach, checker cab, yellow cab; station wagon, family car; motorcycle, motor bike, side car; van, minivan, bus, minibus, microbus; truck, wagon, pick-up wagon, pick-up, tractor-trailer, road train, articulated vehicle; racing car, racer, hot rod, stock car, souped-up car.

Oh bravo! Yes, jump into the old jalopy and come down and stay in the country, and we can relive the old times (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)

Jalopy (1953)

Sloppy Jalopy (1952)

The Flying Jalopy (1943)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Jalopy (reference)

• Magnificent Jalopy (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Brand New Jalopy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. As part of their campaign to collect goods for the Victory Campaign, Boy Scouts of Troop 121 of the United Church of Van Nest, Bronx, New York are shown pushing in one of their collection items, an old Ford jalopy, into. Credit: Library of Congress.

High school boys in jalopy. Genoa, Nevada. Credit: Library of Congress.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A rebuilt jalopy parked on Pine Street. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

karakatinë (dump, hovel, ramshackle, rattletrap). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سيارة بالية (rattletrap), ‏طائرة عتيقة. (various references)

Czech

kraksna. (various references)

Farsi 

اتومبیل یاهواپیمای کهنه واسقاط. (various references)

French

vieux tacot, guimbarde. (various references)

German

alte Kiste. (various references)

Greek 

παλαιό αυτοκίνητο. (various references)

Hungarian

tragacs (clinker, clunker, crock, flivver, junker, old tin can, rattletrap, shebang), rozzant autó. (various references)

Italian

vecchia carretta, macinino (grinder, mill, quern), automobile vecchia. (various references)

Pig Latin

alopyjay.(various references)

Portuguese

calhambeque (rattle-box, rattletrap). (various references)

Romanian

rablã (crock, rattletrap). (various references)

Russian 

колымага (rattletrap), драндулет (clunker, rattletrap). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stara kola (flivver). (various references)

Spanish

cacharro (bone shaker, crock, grid). (various references)

Swedish

rishög (heap of twings, jaloppy), bilskrälle (jaloppy). (various references)

Thai

รถเก่า (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references)

Turkish

külüstür uçak (flivver, jaloppy), külüstür araba (banger, boneshaker, flivver, jaloppy, rattletrap, tin lizzie), hurda araba (jaloppy, oil burner, tin lizzie). (various references)

Ukrainian

таратайка (rattletrap). (various references)

Vietnamese 

máy bay ọp ẹp (jaloppy). (various references)

Misspellings

"Jalopy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balopi, jalep, jalope, jalpoy, jaoy, jelopy, julop. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: jalop.

-2 letters: opal, paly, play, ploy, poly.

-3 letters: alp, jay, joy, lap, lay, lop, pal, pay, ply, pol, pya, yap.

-4 letters: al, ay, jo, la, lo, op, oy, pa, ya, yo.

+1 letter: jaloppy.