How to pronounce jalopy
American English pronunciation
juh-LOP-ee
- IPA
- /dʒəˈlɑpi/
- Syllables
- juh · LOP · ee (3 syllables, stress on the 2nd)
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What jalopy means
An old, beat-up, rattling car
In a sentence: Uncle Ray's jalopy coughed and rattled all the way to the beach.
Where it comes from: It perhaps comes from Jalapa (now Xalapa), a city in Mexico whose scrapyards took old cars shipped from New Orleans starting in the 1920s. It was first written down in 1924.
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