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
The annual Dakar Rally may be best known for the sandstorming, badlands-bashing trucks, buggies and motorcycles that compete within its map boundaries, but the event has also inspired some radical on- and off-road support rigs and RVs.
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New Atlas, 17 Dec. 2025
The sheriff said the road where the crash took place, Fillmore County Road 1, is shared by buggies and has signs warning drivers of the slow traffic, so drivers must be extra careful.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2025
This week's crash marks the latest in a string of incidents involving Amish buggies or travelers in Gladwin County and across Michigan, with five crashes reported in August, two fatal, the Detroit Free Press reported.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Home to more than 1,200 stores, the Dubai Mall is so big that complimentary electric buggies ferry shoppers around and free phone batteries can be borrowed in case visitors run out of power on a day trip there.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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New Atlas, 17 Dec. 2025
The sheriff said the road where the crash took place, Fillmore County Road 1, is shared by buggies and has signs warning drivers of the slow traffic, so drivers must be extra careful.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2025
This week's crash marks the latest in a string of incidents involving Amish buggies or travelers in Gladwin County and across Michigan, with five crashes reported in August, two fatal, the Detroit Free Press reported.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Home to more than 1,200 stores, the Dubai Mall is so big that complimentary electric buggies ferry shoppers around and free phone batteries can be borrowed in case visitors run out of power on a day trip there.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for buggy
Noun
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The majority of the 1048 pieces in this set are used to build the much larger pram, but the completely separate Grogu figure is a joy to put together.—
Rich Owen,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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One wearily pushes hers in a creaky pram.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Dec. 2025
Noun
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One game at a time, go protect the crib and come back to take one at their home.—
Hunter Patterson,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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That can include checking for possible reasons the child is crying, such as hunger or needing a diaper change; trying out a list of strategies to calm the baby; and designating a spot, such as a crib or playpen, to leave the child for a few minutes while the parent cools off.—
Meg Wingerter,
Denver Post,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The area is flat, stroller-friendly and accessible for wheelchairs.—
Taylor Haught,
Kansas City Star,
29 Apr. 2026
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But at Disneyland on Friday, vacationers in matching T-shirts, toddlers in princess dresses and mouse-eared parents pushing strollers made their way through security checkpoints giving little attention to signs posted nearby notifying guests of the theme park’s new facial recognition policy.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Parents arrive with younger siblings in pushchairs and head out to watch the session that is due to start in 10 minutes.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
4 July 2025
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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
Noun
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Universal drink caddies that attach to the handles of suitcases and baby buggies.—
Theresa Holland,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Nov. 2023
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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
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Ten years ago, there were no baby carriages downtown.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2026
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Even on a weekday, three mothers with baby carriages comprise a formidable flotilla in a place such as this.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
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For audiences expecting a cradle-to-grave reckoning, that cutoff can feel abrupt.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2026
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Still, among the more than 100 billion people who have walked the Earth in human history, the Artemis II astronauts have ventured farther from the cradle than anyone else.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Buggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buggy. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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