hoopie

plural hoopies · alternative hoopy

1. USdateddialectalAn old, worn-out car.

   Fact is, he worked more on our car than we did on the farm; and before the week was up, that old hoopie of ours was in the finest state of repair it'd ever been — by a damn sight, too, I mean.

   1956 September, Dillon Anderson, “The Meanest Man in Washington County”, in The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2025

   Synonyms: banger, bucket, beater, hooptie, jalopy, wreck, crock, shitbox