Definition of "pram" [pram]

• Chiefly British A baby carriage. (noun)
• Chiefly New England A small dinghy having a flat, snub-nosed bow. (noun)
• A flatbottom boat used chiefly in the Baltic Sea as a barge. (noun)

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• "A woman leavers a child in pram outside a chemist's shop and goes in."
• "Throwing the toys out of the pram is putting it mildly but this is censorship by any other name and of the worst possible kind."
• "Don's eyes widened when he saw that it was a Martian's "pram" - the self-propelled personal environment without which a Martian cannot live either on Earth or Venus."