beater n.— «“We really wanted to be in Clinton Hill,” said his wife, a writer, describing their house hunt. “Unfortunately, we were two years too late to really find a beater.”» —“Émigrés” by Kate Julian New...
slab n.— «If you are a Houston m.c. of any note, you probably drive a “slab,” the local word for an enormous American car from the nineteen-seventies or eighties that has been overhauled and tricked out in high-gloss “candy paint...
sashweight
n.— «Bores and self-important types were “sashweights” in his lexicon.» —“Gardner Botsford” by Roger Angell New Yorker Oct. 4, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)