A vintage slang term from the Great Depression era describing an automobile so beat-up and rickety that it made the Joads' jalopy look like a Cadillac. Think of it as the 1930s equivalent of calling someone's car a "hooptie," except your grandparents actually used this word unironically while fleeing the Dust Bowl.

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