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HORSE-AND-BUGGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does horse-and-buggy mean?
• HORSE-AND-BUGGY (adjective)
The adjective HORSE-AND-BUGGY has 1 sense:
1. relating to the time before automobiles (and other inventions) changed the way people lived in industrialized nations
Familiarity information: HORSE-AND-BUGGY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to the time before automobiles (and other inventions) changed the way people lived in industrialized nations
Similar:
nonmodern (not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time)
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