THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE DUST BOWL
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a house
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a vehicle
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a horse and buddy
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -: a dilapidated old vehicle (such as an automobile)
Detailed explanation-2: -The origin of jalopy is unknown, but the earliest written use that has been found was in 1924. It is possible that the longshoremen in New Orleans referred to the scrapped autos destined for scrapyards in Jalapa, Mexico, according to this destination, in which they pronounced the letter J as in English.
Detailed explanation-3: -/dʒəˈlɒp.i/ an old car: I’ve sold my old jalopy to my neighbor’s son. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
Detailed explanation-4: -A jalopy is an old car that isn’t working very well. You’d never call a new, smooth-running car a jalopy. There are a lot of insulting words in English, mostly for people. This insult is for a car: a jalopy is a rundown, beat-up, falling apart car that needs to be replaced.