struggle buggy

struggle buggy

1. dated slang One's car when used as a place for sexual activity. Primarily heard in US. The spot is a favorite location of young lovers looking to park their struggle buggies for a late-night romp. I knew he was just trying to tempt me into the backseat of his struggle buggy, but he was so handsome that I couldn't say no!
2. old-fashioned slang A car that is especially old and in poor condition—that is, one that struggles to run properly. Sometimes hyphenated. Primarily heard in US. I can't believe you drove down the entire West Coast in that old struggle buggy—it's a miracle you even made it! I'm finally trading in my struggle-buggy for a newer model.
See also: buggy, struggle
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

struggle buggy

The backseat of a car. This early- and mid-20th-century expression described an auto whose young owner tried to seduce unwilling young women into its backseat for a little (one of the euphemisms for the activity was “backseat boogie”). As the sophomoric joke went, “I call my car the Mayflower because so many Puritans came across in it.”
See also: buggy, struggle
Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
See also:
  • a/(one's) 20
  • (one's) jollies
  • (one's) true colours
  • (one's) old man
  • (one's) old lady
  • a change of scenery
  • a change of scene
  • at (one's) doorstep
  • at doorstep
  • Caturday
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FRIDAY JULY 19: JUMPIN HOT OUTDOOR STAGE 12-12.40pm: John Wilkins 1pm-1.40pm: Elaine Palmer 2pm- 2.40pm: Struggle Buggy 3pm-3.40pm: Shipcote & Friends 4pm-4.40pm: The Most Ugly Child 5pm-6pm: Stan The Band SATURDAY JULY 20: JUMPIN HOT OUTDOOR STAGE 12pm-12.45pm: A Different Thread 1.30pm-2.15pm: Daniel Meade Duo 3pm-3.45pm: Hailbails 4.30pm-5.15pm: Izzie Walsh & band 6pm-7pm: Sister Suzie & The Right Band SUNDAY JULY 21: JUMPIN HOT OUTDOOR STAGE 12pm-12.45pm: Thea Hopkins 1.30pm-2.15pm: The King Bees 3pm-3.45pm: Fargo Railroad Company 4.30pm-5.15pm: Barbara Nesbitt & Band 6pm-7pm: Bennett, Wilson & Poole
TONIGHT VINTAGE TROUBLE: The Empire, Middlesbrough 7pm PS18.50 STRUGGLE BUGGY: Blues at the Bay, Cleveland Bay, Eaglescliffe FOREST LIVE GUY GARVEY: Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire THE CORNSHED: Sexhow Park Farm, Hutton Rudy PS17.50 MAXWELLS CORNER: Dr Browns, Middlesbrough free?
But, as the title suggests, it's all happening at the event as revellers also enjoyed live music from Monkey Junk Blues and The Buffalo Skinners on Friday night; Struggle Buggy, Snake Oil, Hokum Hotshots and Chris Martin on Saturday 28; and The Revolutionaries, Lomax, Michael and Scott, Richard Gardener on Sunday 29.
Finally, it is great to welcome another music venue with the newly-opened Wylam Brewery in Exhibition Park, Newcastle (the former Science & Engineering museum that once housed the Turbinia) and this weekend they have guest spots from Monkey Junk and the Buffalo Skinners (tonight), Struggle Buggy, Snake Oil and the Hokum Hotshots (Saturday) and the Revolutionaires and more on Sunday.
Earlier in the afternoon, there will be sets from Newcastle's King Bees (there are other bands with the same or very similar name) -- who will open the festival -- with their Chicago-style material, followed by the acoustic-blues quartet, Struggle Buggy, who incorporate a mix of delta blues, jug-band and hokum.
Earlier in the afternoon, there will be sets from Newcastle's King Bees (there are other bands with the same or very similar name) - who will open the festival with their Chicago-style material, followed by the acoustic blues quartet, Struggle Buggy, who incorporate a mix of Delta blues, jug-band and hokum.