dualie
n.— «Purchase a “dualie,” a large, four-door, luxury pick-up truck which features a set of dual wheels on the rear axle.» —“Simple Pleasures: the Ten-Minute Play, Overnight Theatre, and the Decline of the Art of Storytelling” by Rick Mitchell New Theatre Quarterly (Cambridge, United Kingdom) Feb., 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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