(n.) A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.
Example Sentences:
(1) Removing a sleeping child from a buggy may be inconvenient, but it is not likely to be as inconvenient for a parent as it would be for a wheelchair user to be prevented from boarding.
(2) He was sitting in his buggy in the hall, his face, hands and clothes smeared with chocolate.
(3) "When both the lifts weren't working they did say that if you were pregnant, had a health problem or a baby in a buggy you could use the main entrance," she said.
(4) Boutik Services (+33 6 0958 0988) in 1850 has cots, booster seats, changing tables, buggies and child skis for hire.
(5) The place was teeming with families and young children, and yet despite my best efforts to find one, I was pleased to note there didn't seem to be a Bugaboo buggy in sight.
(6) The plug-in architecture is a security nightmare, and a source of numerous breaches through which buggy or malicious code was able to reach into users’ computers and compromise them.
(7) Nor was it about whether parents in the wheelchair space with a child in a folding buggy should fold their buggies in order to make way for a wheelchair user: of course they should, if possible.
(8) We are supposed to have them by our early 30s at the latest – and not with some nobody we met on Tinder, but with a long-term partner who’ll push a buggy occasionally.
(9) Companies promise a trip like no other, with buggy tours lasting two days and one evening, 'long enough,' one brochure states, 'for nature enthusiasts to keep their excitement, but not too long to the point of monotony.'
(10) South of Newquay, Perranporth is great for activities from surfing and riding to powerkiting, landboarding and buggy riding.
(11) New parents also face a £9,152 bill during the first twelve months of their new baby's life, taking into account expenditure on equipment such as buggies, cots and prams etc.
(12) But local people say they had video evidence that it was not sabotage but a Shell contractor working in a buggy which struck the pipeline.
(13) But is it reasonable to give people in wheelchairs priority over people pushing buggies?
(14) As we leave her office, a half-naked child wanders into the corridor, and then the lift stops outside the in-house nursery for Jenny Willott, a Liberal Democrat whip, who is pushing two small children in a double buggy.
(15) There's lots of buggies in the world and it will have one, so don't worry about it.'"
(16) That's a logical falsehood, of course – akin to believing a challenge to the horse-and-buggy industry is a challenge to transportation itself – but it's a scary thought and therefore produces an extreme defensive response (government, do something!).
(17) She couldn't work the next buggy for love or money, so she wandered the streets looking for another similar model, found one, begged for guidance from the owners, which they kindly gave her, but by the time she got home she'd forgotten her instructions.
(18) Other photographs show the US troops boarding a blue and white-striped passenger plane and driving a yellow dune buggy.
(19) While better educated staff may be very welcome when it comes to playing imaginative games with children, or introducing them to the alphabet, there's no substitute for pairs of hands to do up little buttons, push buggies and give out cuddles.
(20) It’s about representing the people.” Suddenly we are almost bowled over by the man himself at the wheel of a golf buggy, heading for the nearby driving range where a few hundred locals on picnic rugs and folding chairs are waiting for a free concert by an Elvis impersonator.
Stanhope
Definition:
(n.) A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.
Example Sentences:
(1) The BBC will then work with the developers Stanhope on a three-year project to turn TV Centre into a new creative hub where the corporation will retain a studio presence alongside planned residential, office and leisure premises.
(2) The Stanhope chief executive, David Camp, said: "Stanhope is working in partnership with the BBC to deliver a publicly accessible mixed use remodelling of these iconic buildings and redevelopment of the adjoining land.
(3) It was left to Americans Michael Moore (at the Roundhouse in London in 2002) and Doug Stanhope to remind us that speaking truth to power can equal electrifying standup.
(4) "We've come to know each other ..." At school, Stanhope says he was too dark to be considered the class clown and, after a spell as a "fraud telemarketer" ("borderline legal stuff, trying to scam people basically"), he decided to give stand-up comedy a go at an open-mic in Las Vegas.
(5) One of the thrilling things about Stanhope's material is that, when it really works, it offers a refreshingly honest take on life, often exposing our own double standards.
(6) Sir Mark Stanhope, the head of the navy, told the committee that the aircraft carrier Ark Royal and its jumpjet Harriers would have been used to bomb Libya had they not been axed.
(7) Hanging on a wall in Doug Stanhope's Arizona home is a framed letter, written in 1979 by his school psychiatrist.
(8) Stanhope said if the death had been a traffic accident police would be open about it and would not cite the coroner’s involvement as an obstacle to discussing it.
(9) The chiefs of the three services are paid slightly different salaries: • Sir Mark Stanhope, chief of the naval staff, is paid between £185,000 and £189,999.
(10) Ann Cleeves, creator of the Vera Stanhope and Shetland novels, said she is concerned about a trend she believes has entered ever more morbid territory following the worldwide success of Stieg Larsson 's Millennium trilogy.
(11) Stanhope reiterated this and said the government had acknowledged more spending was necessary.
(12) I don't want to create things to be angry about, I'd sooner start doing happy shit' Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian After pulling out, Stanhope switched his allegiances to Ron Paul – "I look at it like I look at football teams, it's a bit of fun so I root for the underdog" – then switched again to Barack Obama once Paul was knocked out of the race.
(13) In a briefing at Admiralty House, Stanhope said: "How long can we go on as we are in Libya?
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest World-weary pilgrims make their way to the Greek river of forgetfulness in John Roddam Spencer Stanhope’s ‘The Waters of Lethe’ (1880).
(15) Stanhope denied this would involve a review of the cuts set out in last year's Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR).
(16) The park has two campsites , Stanhope and Cavendish, with pitches from £12 a night, and the historic Dalvay-by-the-Sea hotel , once an oil tycoon’s summer home, with 25 antiques-filled rooms and cottages from £120 room only.
(17) "You could close down chicken shops, but you're not going to take away the need," Stanhope says.
(18) Stanhope's remarks come amid growing concern within the Ministry of Defence (MoD) about the prolonged nature of the Libya effort and its cost.
(19) Stanhope also admitted that the navy was having to buy more Tomahawk cruise missiles from the US to replace the ones it had already fired.
(20) Based on all this, a certain sense of apprehension is perhaps the natural response to meeting Stanhope.