jalopyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unknown. Perhaps from Jalapa, Mexico (now Xalapa), to whose scrapyards used cars were often sent from New Orleans starting in the 1920s. First recorded written use in 1924.

発音

• IPA: /d͡ʒəˈlɒ.pi/

名詞

jalopy (plural jalopies)

1. (US, slightly dated) An old, dilapidated or unpretentious automobile.

   Synonyms: banger, beater; see also Thesaurus:old car

   • 1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1959 [1927 June 1], Franklin W. Dixon, The Hardy Boys 01: The Tower Treasure, page 20:

     "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.

   • 2003, Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts, chapter 22, in Deadly Reunion:

     There's only a rough track and I doubt if that jalopy of yours will make it.

   • 2009 November 20, Stephen King, “Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Through most of those early years of restless travel, he dragged his two children and his long-suffering wife, Maryann […] behind him like tin cans tied to the bumper of a jalopy that no car dealer in his right mind would take in trade.

関連する語

• jalapeño (possibly)

参照

Further reading

• “jalopy”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “jalopy”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “jalopy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “jalopy”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.