tin lizzie
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tin lizzie
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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The thought that the company that fathered the tin lizzie sees a limousine in its future was startling enough.
From Time Magazine Archive
She dresses in black and drives a black, vintage tin lizzie, known as "Miss Esta Maude's machine."
From Time Magazine Archive
The funnymen from the hills take off from Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel in a red-hot tin lizzie.
From Time Magazine Archive
To talk about 1966 in 1929 phrases is to compare Gemini 10 to the tin lizzie.
From Time Magazine Archive
He’d had a button and a pennant collection, a thousand pennies in a large mason jar, a fishbowl, and a model tin lizzie hung from a strand of wire in one corner.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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