tin lizzie
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tin Lizzie¹
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Unknown, perhaps from the use of Lizzie as a generic name given to horses.
noun tin Lizzies · Tin Lizzie · tin lizzie
- The Ford Motor Company's Model T automobile. Fate, in the guise of a rural free delivery carrier and a Ford, passed by the front gate. . . . "I don' see why he don't carry a whip," mused Jeb Case. "A-gidappin' to that there tin lizzie," he muttered disgustedly, "jes' like it was as good as a hoss."
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A small, unpretentious, vintage automobile, especially one that is in run-down condition.
"It's a ottomobile. . . . It's a second-hand tin Lizzie," said Walter. "D'you know what that means? It means a flivver."
Similar: flivver, jalopy, banger, beater, bucket of bolts, bucket of rust, clunker, crate, crock, gas guzzler, hooptie, junker
Tin Lizzie²
noun Tin Lizzies
- Alternative letter-case form of tin Lizzie
- A piece of waste ground near the railway, in Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1960s, where local children often played, and where Mary Bell killed Brian Howe.
tin lizzie³
noun tin lizzies
- Alternative letter-case form of tin Lizzie
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