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- noun idiomatic, colloquial, US An
old ,unattractive automobile , purchased for little money, to be driven during brutal Great Lakes winters while the owner's "good" car remains garaged and protected from corrosive road salt for the season.
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Believed to have originated in or around Syracuse, New York.
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