Etymology: from Tin Lizzie, nickname for the Model T Ford automobile, from tin + Lizzie, nickname for Elizabeth
: a small and relatively inexpensive automobile
they are in ancient tin lizzies, on motor scooters … in bicycle rickshas — Horace Sutton
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a popular name for the ↑Model T car. It is sometimes still used to mean any old or cheap car
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He was very rich but drove a tin lizzie all his life.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.