Usually means: Old, dilapidated car; often unreliable.
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  1. jalopy: Merriam-Webster
  2. jalopy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jalopy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jalopy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jalopy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jalopy, jalopy: Wordnik
  7. jalopy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jalopy: Wiktionary
  9. jalopy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jalopy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jalopy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. jalopy: Dictionary.com
  13. jalopy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jalopy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Jalopy (disambiguation), Jalopy (film), Jalopy (video game), Jalopy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. jalopy: Rhymezone
  17. jalopy: FreeDictionary.org
  18. jalopy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. jalopy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Jalopy: World Wide Words
  21. jalopy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. jalopy: Encyclopedia

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  1. jalopy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. jalopy, jalopy: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (US, dated) An old, dilapidated or unpretentious automobile.
noun:  (US, dated, slang) A hip, cool, groovy automobile.

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