Words similar to jalopy

Example sentences for: jalopy

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Even when Keynesian macroeconomists were at their most hubristic, none of them claimed that macroeconomic "fine-tuning" could make an economic jalopy into a Porsche.
Fountain pen, dirt road, manual transmission, steam engine, hand-woven fabric, conventional weapons, general practitioner, natural childbirth, cloth diaper --these are backwords dating anywhere from the era of the jalopy to the nuclear age.