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6 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a car that is old and unreliable
originUnknown. Perhaps from Jalapa, Mexico (now Xalapa), to whose scrapyards used cars were often sent from New Orleans starting in the 1920s. First recorded written use in 1924.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0