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  • https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Courses/Canada_College/Essentials_of_Linguistics_Remix_2.0/07%3A_Sociolinguistics-_Language_Variation_and_Change/7.02%3A_Language_varies
    For example, jalopy is an older North American English term (you’ll find it used several times in Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, written in the late 1940s), hooptie is typically associated with Black Eng...For example, jalopy is an older North American English term (you’ll find it used several times in Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, written in the late 1940s), hooptie is typically associated with Black English (having been the topic of the 1989 hip-hop song, ‘My Hooptie’ by Sir Mix-a-Lot), and paddock basher is a term mostly only found in Australia, referring to a car only suitable to drive around on a farmer’s field (which, non-coincidentally, is referred to as paddock there).

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