smog
v.— «Vehicles which were made before 1965 are not required to be smogged for registration.» —“A student’s guide to buying a dependable used car” in San Diego State University Daily Aztec (California) Feb. 26, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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