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

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of buggy To our surprise, the lady was there in a horse and buggy. Dr. Devon B. Smith, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025 Electric buggies transport winery workers and visitors around the labyrinth. Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025 Ten of the bright yellow golf-cart style buggies are being trialled until October as part of a micro mobility sharing scheme across a small part of Fulham in London. Nicole Kobie, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025 The company’s decision to prematurely release a buggy, completely overhauled new app back in May — with crucial features missing at launch — outraged customers and kicked off a monthslong domino effect that included layoffs, a sharp decline in employee morale, and a public apology tour. Chris Welch, The Verge, 13 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for buggy 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buggy
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Some of the best family-friendly hostels across Europe include cribs, high chairs and game rooms for the kids.
    Amelia Edelman, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Not in the crib kept in her mother’s bedroom, but on the living room sofa.
    Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This year, as families with baby strollers and groups of cinema fans ambled by amid the thousands on the street on a warmer-than-expected Friday afternoon, the retailers were booming.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Runners, walkers, joggers, strollers, wheelchair users and four-legged friends are welcome.
    CHRISTINA MAYO, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 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
  • From agricultural tools to industrial machines, from cradles to skyscrapers, our species has grown by learning, discarding, and rebuilding.
    Rick Tumlinson, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Paige Bueckers, watching from the bench with a knee injury, was gesturing with imaginary bow and arrow, imaginary rocking of the cradle, imaginary goggles.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2025

Thesaurus Entries Near buggy

Cite this Entry

“Buggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buggy. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

More from Merriam-Webster on buggy

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!