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plural buggies
A small horse-drawn cart. quotations examples
I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy. quotations examples
I casually let this information drop as our concierge drives us through the resort in a buggy, a frangipani flower tucked behind his ear. He promises to fix the bug problem and drops us off at the lobby.
2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times
A hearse. quotations examples
Bring out the rubber tired buggy/Bring out the rubber tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back
1920's arr: Jimmie Rogers Frankie and Johnnie
(UK, Western Pennsylvania) A pushchair; a stroller. quotations examples
The wider station upgrade has provided lifts to the Piccadilly and Victoria lines, as well as Network Rail platforms, to make it easier for passengers with mobility needs, buggies or heavy luggage to use London Underground.
2020 January 2, “New entrance at Finsbury Park”, in Rail, page 12
(Canada, Southern US, Western Pennsylvania) A shopping cart or trolley. examples
comparative buggier, superlative buggiest
Infested with insects. examples
(computing) Containing programming errors. examples
Resembling an insect. examples
(slang) Crazy; bughouse. quotations
You have to help me get out of here. They want to keep me longer, but I can't stay. This place is driving me buggy.
2011, Beverley Armstrong-Rodman, Nightmare in the Everglades, page 106