dune buggy
noun
a small, lightweight, open automotive vehicle equipped with oversize, low-pressure tires for traveling along sand beaches, over dunes, etc.
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dune-buggyverb (used without object)to drive or ride in a dune buggy.
dune buggy
1 Americannoun
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dune buggies
plural
dune-buggy
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American
[doon-buhg-ee, dyoon-]
/ ˈdunˌbʌg i, ˈdjun- /
verb (used without object)
dune-buggied,
dune-buggying
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of dune buggy
First recorded in 1955–60
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Emojis, Disney characters, cigarettes and more pile up in humorous scenes that include a saber-toothed tiger driving a dune buggy and a pair of corvids fighting over a worm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
And it was evident when a dune buggy then screeched onto the field carrying Butch T. Cougar and Benny Beaver, who disembarked carrying the other school’s flag.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2023
I jump into a dune buggy driven by Levav Weinberg - an apple farmer in the northern-most Israeli town of Metula.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2023
I'd call them and say, "I just saw this movie, "The Velvet Vampire," and she's driving around in a dune buggy. Remember dune buggies? Hey, let's have Peggy drive a dune buggy."
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2023
And I guess I do, because the next thing I know, I'm driving this dune buggy at about a hundred miles an hour across a burning desert that looks like the surface of the moon.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
He has three top 10 finishes in eight starts after missing eight races because of his back rehabilitation following a dune-buggy accident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2016
That's about where things stand as a substitute driver for Tony Stewart, out indefinitely after breaking his back in a dune-buggy accident Jan. 31 in the Southwest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2016
Doubling for a villain on the Bionic Woman, she speeds neck and neck with Lindsay Wagner in a dune-buggy chase before losing spectacularly in a sandy somersault.
From Time Magazine Archive
Right now the fight is over who will cater to the virtual sniper-attack and dune-buggy needs of legions of young gamers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jon Heder stars in the titular role, a carrot-topped oddball with a decidedly eccentric family that includes his llama-loving, dune-buggy enthusiast grandmother.
From Time Magazine Archive
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