Definition of "horse-and-buggy" []

• Relating to the time before automobiles (and other inventions) changed the way people lived in industrialized nations (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter."
• "In 1933, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office, much of the country was making do with Victorian bridges, horse-and-buggy roads, and improvised sanitation."
• "Which is a similar concern the horse-and-buggy industry had when cars were invented."