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noun
1A small motor vehicle, typically with an open top.
‘a golf buggy’- ‘Shortly, a small pile covered by an American flag was brought out in an open buggy.’
- ‘I presume that by ‘scooters’ he means the 4-wheeled mobility buggies, sales of which have boomed in the last couple of years.’
- ‘As well as sitting on airplanes, golf buggies and sun loungers during their winter break, Rangers have enjoyed the pleasure of sitting on a three-point lead that can only have had a positive effect on morale.’
- ‘With over 800 trade stands there was a myriad of things to see - perhaps we should have taken one of the golf buggies to ride round the site.’
- ‘They scoot around in golf buggies, from beach to bar, and tennis court to treatment room.’
- ‘I was more surprised by the fact that seven of my 59 students did not know that NASA's spirit, a robot the size of a golf buggy, had made a triumphant landing on Mars.’
- ‘There aren't even any cars - a golf buggy is about as much as you'll squeeze up its Toytown streets with their cluster s of sugar-cube houses.’
- ‘A mock-Victorian map shows you the location of your room, while golf buggies are employed to take guests past the immaculate gardens to rooms in the five outlying lodges.’
- ‘Overnight rain diminished the Monday morning crowd for golf on June 4, as no buggies were available for the wounded or super seniors who need a ride these days.’
- ‘Somehow, the standard mode of transport, the golf buggy - everyone zips around in them - comes with a suitable edge of irony.’
- ‘You'll mostly find men tinkering away at the cars, buggies and bikes which are getting set for the 230 kilometre return journey down to Finke.’
- ‘It's late evening in London but lunchtime in Los Angeles, and when McDowell picks up the phone he's riding a buggy down the fairway of his local golf course.’
- ‘The effect is comic, like Mr Toad driving a golf buggy.’
- ‘Volunteers keep our houses open, welcome visitors, drive our buggies for less mobile visitors, help out in our restaurants and shops, answer phones, run educational tours, research histories the list is endless.’
- ‘Police in Deland, Florida arrested Johnson after stopping him from driving on a state road in a golf buggy.’
- ‘After checking in, I am led to a golf buggy which chugs the few yards to my bungalow.’
- ‘On the up side, my golf club have now provided me with a buggy so this weekend I can take part in the club medal match for the first time this year.’
- ‘A tourist has been arrested for drink-driving in a golf buggy.’
- ‘But thanks to his faithful buggy he can still get round the course he joined in 1977, and, as he showed, he can still grab the headlines.’
- ‘Jack heaved himself from the well-worn seat of a golf buggy that had seen better years and grinned as his tanned wrist reached for a trusty 9-iron.’
- 1.1historical A light, horse-drawn vehicle for one or two people, with two or four wheels.
- ‘More Cubans rely on horse and buggies than automobiles.’
- ‘On several occasions I passed men on horse-drawn buggies and women threshing wheat by hand.’
- ‘Imagine that all your life you've grown up in Amish country, riding horse-drawn buggies.’
- ‘Most of us assume that the Amish deplore all modern things; after all, they travel in horse-driven buggies and shun electricity.’
- ‘If the horse-drawn buggy is your normal means of transportation then the automobile is wondrous.’
2A stroller for a baby or young child.
- ‘To reach the lifts that are available, you have to climb a flight of stairs, which is no use for passengers with luggage, bikes, children and buggies.’
- ‘The study also generated other ideas, including a continuous route along the rivers, accessible to all pedestrians, including people using wheelchairs and buggies.’
- ‘The centre is looking for a safe, ground floor office with access for buggies and pushchairs.’
- ‘These walks have been mapped by the BBC and each one follows a family-friendly route - accessible to wheelchairs and buggies - and takes in geographical, historical and contemporary stories.’
- ‘The extension, which is now fully up and running, includes six consulting rooms, a new meeting room, a new upstairs reception area, and a platform lift for wheelchairs and buggies.’
- ‘One would be level for walkers, people in wheelchairs and parents with buggies, while the other would rise and fall to allow youngsters to practice jumps on their bikes or skateboards.’
- ‘Buses provide easy access for wheelchairs users, parents with buggies and shoppers with trolleys.’
- ‘Yet everyday the people living in the area have to battle up its steep, gravel hill with shopping, bicycles and buggies.’
- ‘Cars parked in Park Road sometimes completely block access to the park and the pavement is dangerous for parents with buggies and wheelchair users.’
- ‘A notice on the door proclaimed ‘Unfortunately we have no room for buggies or pushchairs’.’
- ‘Any central island would have to be large enough to accommodate up to 15 people with their shopping trolleys, prams, buggies and young children.’
- ‘The puzzle covers more than five miles of pathways and the whole family is welcome to have a go, including those in wheelchairs and buggies.’
- ‘They would offer low-floor, easy access for parents with pushchairs and buggies, people in wheelchairs and the elderly, making public transport more accessible.’
- ‘And on Saturday, May 1, families will be dressing up and decorating their bicycles and buggies for a fund-raising walk around the parish.’
- ‘Many of you have had experience of poor accessibility for pushchairs and buggies.’
- ‘For example the boot can take a child buggy and golf clubs, both items lying flat on the floor, between the rear wheel arches, without having to utilise the folding seat facility.’
- ‘This also means buggies and shopping trolleys can be wheeled straight on and there is also a ramp for wheelchair users.’
- ‘However, this might not be suitable for the many people who come into town on their electric wheelchairs or with double buggies.’
- ‘One woman with a twin buggy was taking up four seats while elderly people had to stand all the way.’
- ‘Since we'd decided not to book a car at the airport, we had to wheel the luggage trolley, two buggies, three suitcases and two children across the flooded car park to the coach provided by Sunworld.’
Origin
Mid 18th century: of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
adjective
1Infested with bugs.
- ‘I had ignorantly imagined the Louisiana swamp as godforsakenly muggy, buggy, and hot.’
- ‘This is whole-grain white flint cornmeal, which would go rancid and buggy in your cupboard faster than cheese.’
- ‘It is used for numerous outings during the hot, buggy, Dakota summers.’
- ‘In reality, I was looking for new digs, a climate healthier than the overpriced acres of buggy floodplain my wife, Kitty, and I owned.’
- ‘We have both experienced another, lost Florida, timeless and lovely and free, with nary a traffic jam, and miss the hell out of it, miss the balance, miss its buggy hum and its hush.’
- 1.1 (of a computer program or system) faulty in operation.
- ‘In the past, typical translations from proprietary houses have had buggy character sets and ended up with a weird mix of English and whichever language.’
- ‘Unfortunately, the Web front end is quite buggy when it comes to deleting and editing users.’
- ‘It's hard to overcome the reputation of having a buggy product.’
- ‘Come up with essentially better, less buggy technology’
- ‘Electronic voting has much to offer, but will we ever be able to trust these buggy machines?’
- ‘A buggy active application might corrupt the state of a router or might harm other active applications.’
- ‘Like many other people, I was turned off by the idea of applets, which were slow, insecure and buggy.’
- ‘Clunky interfaces on the cameras and buggy software used to move pictures into a computer are rapidly being improved.’
- ‘It turned out that a small bit of buggy assembly code deep in the libgcj runtime was causing a linear search of exception handling tables rather than the expected binary search.’
- ‘People at each office complained about the software; the systems were buggy and expensive.’
- ‘The buggy program examples used with the following memory debuggers can be seen in Listings 2, 3 and 4.’
- ‘Are there any real excuses for releasing a buggy game?’
- ‘Unfortunately, the encyclopedia search is buggy.’
- ‘Furthermore, it could have thrown its considerable economic weight around and refused to repeatedly purchase buggy software.’
- ‘I had a system crash thanks to a usually-reliable program that issued a buggy upgrade.’
- ‘I'm certain this has been mentioned in many, many reviews thus far, but I cannot avoid mentioning just how buggy this game is.’
- ‘Literally millions of people would download these unfinished, buggy releases.’
- ‘Yeah, it was Microsoft programmers who wrote the buggy code, but were they any different than most programmers at that time?’
- ‘This implementation of the principle of least privilege helps contain security breaches arising from buggy code, malicious code, user error and malicious users.’
- ‘The result was the same - low usage, this time partly because of buggy software.’
2North American informal Crazy; insane.
- ‘They each had a short fuse and Virginia was one of the few people men or women who would dare stand up to Ben when he went buggy.’
- ‘Cops in Lewiston, Maine, were just trying to make a routine traffic stop when the driver went buggy, bailed out and hightailed it into the woods.’
- ‘Yes, I am aware that things are buggy around here.’
- ‘And those who think otherwise are just plain buggy.’
- ‘Better to search than to just sit and think the same buggy thoughts day after day! If he kept that up he'd go buggy for sure’
insane, mentally ill, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, not together, crazy, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, psychotic, psychopathic, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare, away with the fairies, foaming at the mouthView synonyms
