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tin Lizzie

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tin Lizzie

▶noun N. Amer. informal an old or decrepit car.

– origin early 20th cent. (orig. a nickname for an early Ford): Lizzie, a familiar form of the given name Elizabeth.

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