buggy whip

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   a horsewhip once used by a driver of a buggy

   “since buggies have been replaced by cars the buggy whip has become a symbol for anything that is hopelessly outmoded”

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Questions about buggy whip

What does buggy whip mean?

buggy whip means "a horsewhip once used by a driver of a buggy".

Is buggy whip a common word?

buggy whip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.