Jalopy (disambiguation)
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Automobiles

  • An old car
    Jalopy
    A jalopy is a decrepit car, often old and in a barely functional state. A jalopy is not a well kept antique car, but a car which is mostly rundown or beaten up. As a slang term in American English, "Jalopy" was noted in 1924 but is now slightly passé...

  • Lemon (automobile)
    Lemon (automobile)
    A lemon is a car, often new, that is found to be defective only after it has been bought. Any vehicle with numerous, severe issues can be termed a "lemon", and, by extension, any product with flaws too great or severe to serve its purpose can be described as a "lemon".-Origin:The use of the word...

    , a defective automobile
  • Rat rod
    Rat rod
    A rat rod is a style of hot rod or custom car that, in most cases, imitates the early hot rods of the 40s, 50s, and 60s. It is not to be confused with the somewhat closely related "traditional" hot rod, which is an accurate re-creation or period-correct restoration of a hot rod from the same...

    , an updated term for jalopy (or the 1950s notion of a hot rod)

Other

  • Jalopy (film)
    Jalopy (film)
    Jalopy is a 1953 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on February 15, 1953 by Allied Artists and is the twenty-ninth film in the series.-Plot:...

    , a 1953 film starring The Bowery Boys
  • Jalopy (formatter), in computer science a source code formatter for Java
    Java (programming language)
    Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

  • Jalopy (magazine), a UK magazine from 1992 - approx 1994.
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