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Definition of "buggy" []

  • A small, light, one-horse carriage usually having four wheels in the United States and two wheels in Great Britain. (noun)
  • A baby carriage. (noun)
  • A passenger or recreational vehicle, usually with oversized tires, designed for off-road use. (noun)
  • Informal An automobile. (noun)
  • Chiefly Southern U.S. A shopping cart, especially for groceries. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "buggy" in a sentence
  • "They had a cafe, and the man had what he called a buggy, and he'd load it with sandwiches and bring it through the mill, and we could buy sandwiches off of it."
  • "Sad that living the way we did for thousands of years until someone figured out how to put a motor in a buggy is considered “radical.”"
  • "I chose the porcelin buggy you see here, in pink, from another store, and put the flowers in it."