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

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Recent Examples of buggy People were festive, unbothered, walking around, dashing into shops and restaurants, pushing kids in buggies. Gwen Faulkenberry, arkansasonline.com, 5 Dec. 2024 And then there are two more special wagons in a large room — one a sea-blue hack and another a black antique buggy. Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Sep. 2024 Stiller doesn’t leave us alone; a buggy SZA emerges from the smoke and seductively dances in the field. Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024 More than 200 tickets have been issued to Amish buggy drivers since lawmakers adopted the regulation in June 2022. Laura A. Bischoff, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for buggy 
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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
  • Best known for their super sofa bedding, Cozy Earth is replacing items lost in the fire. Newton, known for crib mattresses is offering order replacements.
    Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • One directs providers to place a blanket in every crib, even though the state prohibits using blankets to reduce the risk of SIDS.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • After that, the sisters mostly wheeled their babies around in black strollers.
    Jordan Salama, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • San Franciscans had fun with it, marking historic firsts: The San Francisco Chronicle recorded the first person to walk across the bridge on stilts, pushing a stroller, on roller skates, on a unicycle and while playing a tuba.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 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
  • Next, a person not in these rows, playing the Superman or Supergirl, jumps and dives into this cradle.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • It is known for being the cradle of several advanced pre-Hispanic (or pre-Columbian) civilizations.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024

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