Tom drove to the dance in his father's jalopy.
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Jalopy
//d͡ʒəˈlɒ.pi//
Synonyms for "jalopy" (49 found)
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Related words (24)
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87 translations across 64 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- wrak noun (old, dilapidated car)
Albanian
1 entries- karakatinë noun (old, dilapidated car)
Amharic
1 entries- ጃላፔኖ noun (old, dilapidated car)
Arabic
1 entries- سَيَّارَة بَالِيَة noun (old, dilapidated car)
Belarusian
1 entries- тая калымага noun (old, dilapidated car)
Bengali
1 entries- উড়োজাহাজ noun (old, dilapidated car)
Bulgarian
1 entries- таратайка noun (old, dilapidated car)
Catalan
1 entries- trasto noun (old, dilapidated car)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 破舊車 /破旧车 noun (old, dilapidated car)
Czech
1 entries- kraksna noun (old, dilapidated car)
Danish
1 entries- spand noun (old, dilapidated car)
Dutch
2 entries- barrel noun (old, dilapidated car)
- wrak noun (old, dilapidated car)
Estonian
1 entries- autorämä noun (old, dilapidated car)
Finnish
1 entries- kottero noun (old, dilapidated car)
French
3 entries- carriole noun (old, dilapidated car)
- guimbarde noun (old, dilapidated car)
- tas de ferraille noun (old, dilapidated car)
Galician
1 entries- calhambeque noun (old, dilapidated car)
Georgian
1 entries- ჯალიპი noun (old, dilapidated car)
German
4 entries- Klapperkiste noun (old, dilapidated car)
- Rostlaube noun (old, dilapidated car)
- Schrottkiste noun (old, dilapidated car)
- Schrottmühle noun (old, dilapidated car)
Greek
1 entries- παλαιό αυτοκίνητο noun (old, dilapidated car)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- genbard noun (old, dilapidated car)
Hebrew
1 entries- טָרָנטָה noun (old, dilapidated car)
Hindi
1 entries- पुरानी गड़ी noun (old, dilapidated car)
Hungarian
2 entries- rozzant autó noun (old, dilapidated car)
- tragacs noun (old, dilapidated car)
Icelandic
2 entries- bíldrusla noun (old, dilapidated car)
- drusla noun (old, dilapidated car)
Indonesian
1 entries- mobil rongsok noun (old, dilapidated car)
Italian
2 entries- catorcio noun (old, dilapidated car)
- macinino noun (old, dilapidated car)
Japanese
1 entries- ジャロピー noun (old, dilapidated car)
Kannada
1 entries- ಜಲಪೆನೊ noun (old, dilapidated car)
Kazakh
2 entries- драндулет noun (old, dilapidated car)
- құлағап тұрған ескі көлігі noun (old, dilapidated car)
Korean
2 entries- 고물차 noun (old, dilapidated car)
- 똥차 noun (old, dilapidated car)
Latvian
1 entries- veca automašīna noun (old, dilapidated car)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kleras noun (old, dilapidated car)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Jalopp noun (old, dilapidated car)
Macedonian
1 entries- крнтија noun (old, dilapidated car)
Malay
1 entries- mobil tua noun (old, dilapidated car)
Malayalam
1 entries- ജലോപ്പി noun (old, dilapidated car)
Marathi
1 entries- खटारगाडी noun (old, dilapidated car)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- jalopî noun (old, dilapidated car)
Norwegian
1 entries- kjerra noun (old, dilapidated car)
Pashto
1 entries- جولوپي noun (old, dilapidated car)
Polish
1 entries- gruchot noun (old, dilapidated car)
Portuguese
3 entries- calhambeque noun (old, dilapidated car)
- chaço noun (old, dilapidated car)
- lasanha noun (old, dilapidated car)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਜਲੋਪੀ noun (old, dilapidated car)
Romanian
1 entries- rablă noun (old, dilapidated car)
Russian
3 entries- драндуле́т noun (old, dilapidated car)
- колыма́га noun (old, dilapidated car)
- развалю́ха noun (old, dilapidated car)
Samoan
1 entries- fana noun (old, dilapidated car)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- krntija noun (old, dilapidated car)
Sindhi
1 entries- جولوپي noun (old, dilapidated car)
Sinhalese
1 entries- නටනවා noun (old, dilapidated car)
Slovak
1 entries- kraksňa noun (old, dilapidated car)
Somali
1 entries- jalalka noun (old, dilapidated car)
Spanish
4 entries- cacharro noun (old, dilapidated car)
- carcacha noun (old, dilapidated car)
- carraca noun (old, dilapidated car)
- carro destartalado noun (old, dilapidated car)
Swahili
1 entries- mkweche noun (old, dilapidated car)
Swedish
2 entries- bilskrälle noun (old, dilapidated car)
- rishög noun (old, dilapidated car)
Tagalog
1 entries- lumang kotse noun (old, dilapidated car)
Tamil
1 entries- பழைய ஊர்தி noun (old, dilapidated car)
Telugu
1 entries- పాతబడి పనికిరాని మోటారు వాహనము noun (old, dilapidated car)
Thai
1 entries- รถเก่าแก่ noun (old, dilapidated car)
Turkish
1 entries- külüstür araba noun (old, dilapidated car)
Ukrainian
1 entries- таратайка noun (old, dilapidated car)
Urdu
1 entries- جولوپی noun (old, dilapidated car)
Uzbek
1 entries- jalopi noun (old, dilapidated car)
Welsh
1 entries- siandri noun (old, dilapidated car)
Yiddish
1 entries- דזשאַלאָפּי noun (old, dilapidated car)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he was actually born on the road, when his parents were passing through Salt Lake City in 1926, in a jalopy, on their way to Los Angeles.
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"We ran into some real excitement," Frank said, and told his father the whole story of Chet's missing jalopy, the wrecked car which they suspected had been a stolen one also, and the attempted holdup at the ferryboat office.
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There's only a rough track and I doubt if that jalopy of yours will make it.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.