rattle-trap

           I watched as he got into his old rattle-trap yellow ex-taxicab and rattled out of the pot-holed parking lot in a puff of blue smoke and began chugging up the hill.

The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 15 2010

With a little effort and elaboration, one can bridge the gap somewhat so that people get the idea I have used rattle-trap cars with all their loose and vibrating parts as it hauls down a bumpy road to illustrate frictional heating, for example.

Evidence that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is wrong? - The Panda's Thumb 2010

You've arrived after a two-hour drive in the unairconditioned rattle-trap.

Bluster-fuck 2010

Kilborn explained his defense strategy outside the courthouse, saying "we didn't want to give any credibility whatsoever to this rattle-trap, junked-up case." print share

AL-GOV: Ex-Gov Siegelman Offers No Defense In Corruption Trial 2009

Annie lives in Emerald, flies her rattle-trap plane into a tornado, nearly loses her dog, and does her fair share to help the cowardly and the broken- hearted.

Four Corners of the Sky Tripp 2009

That's like saying that because country music is widely popular among a lot of white people, then all white men are tobacco-chewing goobers who drive rattle-trap pick-up trucks with gun racks or who sit around the feed store eating Moon Pies, running stills, and cheat on their wives.

Cultural Connection 2007

Drives a shaggy little, rough pony, in a sort of a rattle-trap arm-chair sort of a thing.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

My son is busy getting his degree and trying to figure out how to find the money for a rattle-trap, old car to get him to work.

Once again it's time for the Religious Right to campaign on the back of my family Diane Silver 2006

My son is busy getting his degree and trying to figure out how to find the money for a rattle-trap, old car to get him to work.

Archive 2006-10-08 Nancy Jane Moore 2006

And yet after twenty plus years of work we still can't shoot down a rattle-trap lashed up ICBM prototype that wouldn't been laughed off the lot at Peenemunde.

The Chimes at Midnight 2006