power-pram

power-pram
 v.— «Seriously, every Saturday on 24th Street it’s like a fucking baby fair—double strollers even, toddlers wearing outfits that cost more than one of my paychecks, mothers power-pramming, as they say in England, combining exercise with pushing a baby stroller (sounds like a good idea, looks disgusting and a bit cruel) and a general sea of proud reproducing parental faces smiling and happy and just itching to talk childbirth, pre-school waiting lists and infant movement classes or yoga for children. » —“Babies, Roommates and Tricks in Noe Valley” by Don Baird Bay Times (San Francisco, California) Apr. 17, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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