Automobiles & Transportation Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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bagger n. The shop was picked for one of Discovery Channel’s “Biker Build-Off” events this summer and chose a bagger—also affectionately known as a road sofa—for the build, says owner Brian Klock.…Baggers—called that for the distinct saddle bags in the back—are known for comfort. “You can ride one all the way to California,” Klock says. “We put every gadget in this bike we could think of, including a Sony DVD player.” [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 11, 2006)

bah-see zhan n. In just a few years, a vibrant, competitive and largely self-contained economy had materialized around the bus stop, or bah-see zhan, an economy that employed at least 200 people, all of them bound to one another in a complicated network of alliances, dependencies and feuds. [Chinese Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jun. 7, 2008)

bakkie n. Honda is going to show an innovative bakkie concept at the Detroit Motor Show in January. This new and innovative pickup concept will provide the world with its first glimpse of the direction Honda will take with a future production sport-utility truck model. [English South Africa Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jun. 9, 2004)

bakkie n. “It is strange that we are prepared to travel in a car with a Colored, and allow him to ride on our bakkie (pickup truck) on the farm,” Botha said, “but when he wants to live close to you, then there is trouble.” [English South Africa Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jun. 9, 2004)

bakkie n. Eventually, along came a “bakkie"—a small farm van—and the driver took me to near Sterkspruit. [English South Africa Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jun. 9, 2004)

bakkie n. The B140 is still being made in South Africa (the truck is called “Bakkie” in SA). [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jun. 9, 2004)

bangernomics n. Others choose to avoid depreciation and buy a car that is at least five years old and drive it until it dies, a practice known as bangernomics in the UK. [English United Kingdom Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Oct. 10, 2006)

barge n. In trackday argot, a big, heavy but probably very powerful car is known as a “barge.” The Audi RS6 is not only the most powerful production Audi ever, but also the most powerful estate car in the world (a saloon version will be available soon). Enter Superbarge. Yours for £77,625. [English Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 12, 2008)

battle wagon n. You can even create your own “battle wagon,” as they’re called: Paint your car in your team’s colors, get matching carpet, and add comfy seats. [English Automobiles & Transportation Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Sep. 19, 2005)

baulk v. The guys in the Cadillac were known to him as serial baulkers (as in baulking insurance companies), and they earned a living—sort of—by ploughing their battering-ram Cadi into the soft areas of cars being used by wholly legal drivers such as me.…Illegal baulking is such a big industry in the States that some of the offenders are funded and encouraged by wealthy criminal bosses and unscrupulous legal professionals to go out in old bangers and deliberately create “accidents” [English Automobiles & Transportation Crime & Prisons] [full cite] (Jan. 17, 2006)

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