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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 Yorker (New York City) Jan. 2, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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