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• dune buggy
  dune buggy

  noun

  a small, lightweight, open automotive vehicle equipped with oversize, low-pressure tires for traveling along sand beaches, over dunes, etc.
• dune-buggy
  dune-buggy

  verb (used without object)

  to drive or ride in a dune buggy.

dune buggy

¹ American  

noun

• dune buggies
  plural

1. 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-buggy ² American  

[doon-buhg-ee, dyoon-] / ˈdunˌbʌg i, ˈdjun- /

verb (used without object)

dune-buggied, dune-buggying

1. to drive or ride in a dune buggy.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dune buggies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of dune buggy

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

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dune buggy dune-buggy

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

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

Scharf partly blames dune-buggy drivers who careen through nesting grounds, plus harmful human discards like pop-top beer-can rings, which can injure hungry gulls.

From Time Magazine Archive

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