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S vs Jalopy - What's the difference?

s | jalopy |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun jalopy is

an old, dilapidated vehicle.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    jalopy

    English

    Noun

    (jalopies)
  • An old, dilapidated vehicle.
  • * 1979 , Jack Kerouac, On the road , page 3:
    • Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he was actually born on the road, when his parents were passing through Salt Lake City in 1926, in a jalopy , on their way to Los Angeles.
  • * 2003 , Terrance Dicks & Barry Letts, Deadly Reunion , chapter 22:
    • There's only a rough track and I doubt if that jalopy of yours will make it.

    Synonyms

    * flivver, hooptie, tin Lizzie