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

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bobtail n. An American would be riding in the lead vehicle as commander and driving the last one as “bobtail”—a truck without a load that acts as a sort of sheepdog, rushing to help with any problems and making sure no one has drifted out of formation. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Sep. 27, 2004)

boda-boda n. It costs a mere 20 shillings (about R3) to travel across Kisumu on a bicycle; matatu rates are double that. And, bikes are everywhere—the ringing of their bells and the crunch of wheels on dirt the dominant sounds in towns and villages lining the brown lake. Locals call them boda bodas; the name is a play on the English word “border,” explains Charles Omondi, a bicycle-taxi owner in Kendu Bay. “Some years ago, the bikes started coming into Kenya from Uganda, at the border. So people started calling them boda bodas,” he laughs. [Kenya Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (May. 1, 2006)

bodysnatcher n. On a lonely corner, the kind of corner you don’t want to be alone on, stood a woman. In a late-model smallish SUV drove another woman, looking for slugs. In Metro parlance, slugs are people who ride with bodysnatchers instead of paying full fare on the bus. Bodysnatcher are people who snatch bodies off of Metro busses and take them home in their car so as to be able to use the HOV lane. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Apr. 19, 2006)

bogger n. The tour also included a look at a bogger—an underground front end loader—at work. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (May. 23, 2006)

bogging n. It seems strange to own an expensive, high powered pick-up truck that has one purpose-to see how fast it can run through a mud hole. You can find people throughout the country involved in the sport of boggin’, as it’s called. [English Automobiles & Transportation Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Sep. 19, 2005)

bogie n. The non-steering wheels in front of the “bogies” are called “pusher axles” and wheels behind the “bogies” are called “tag axles.” They are single wheels. And they are for wieght regulations. If there are three drive axles in a row they are called a “tridem” instead of “bogie.” [English Automobiles & Transportation Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 22, 2008)

bomber n. When Kurt was 15, his parents bought him a “bomber” car, a vehicle which resembles some street cars and is also known as hobby stock. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Apr. 5, 2005)

bomber n. The limited sportsman division, with cars of up to 255 cubic inches, the mini-modified division, with cars up to 2,200 cubic centimetres, and the bomber division, with six-cylinder street-stock cars, will round out the card. [English Automobiles & Transportation Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Apr. 5, 2005)

bomber n. Mercer-Smith tore into the parking lot in a rusty yellow 1970s vintage LTD, a boatlike bomber of a car. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Apr. 6, 2005)

bomber n. It didn’t seem like a good idea to arrive at Adele Slivinski’s office in the Bomber—it was a car that tend to make people skeptical of the driver. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Apr. 6, 2005)

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