hoopty
noun [ C ] US informal (also hooptie) uk/ˈhuːp.ti/ us/ˈhuːp.ti/
破旧的汽车
an old car in bad condition
He was driving a hoopty with a clothes hanger for an antenna. 他开着一辆破车,天线是用衣架做的。
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- Some people get dropped off at school in the kind of hooptie that can barely make it down the street.
- A hoopty comes down East Boulevard, spouting smoke and blaring music.
- You're talking on your cell phone while refilling your hooptie at the gas station.
- I used to have a mini-truck, a little hoopty truck.