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Noun
[edit]bundle buggy (plural bundle buggies)
- (now chiefly Canada) A bag on wheels with an extendable handle, usually used for grocery shopping.
- 1942 August 3, The New York Times:
- For the harried, automobileless housewife there was a ‘Bundle Buggy’ for bringing home the groceries.
- 1987 August 31, Paul Bilodeau, “Tenants Protest 'Cockroach Haven' in Downtown Core”, in Toronto Star, page B7:
- One 75-year-old neighbor tells of having to get other tenants to help her lift her bundle-buggy up five floors.
References
[edit]- “bundle buggy”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.