booby hutch

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Noun

booby hutch (plural booby hutches)

  1. (historical) A clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the eastern part of England.
    • 1888, Robert Smith Surtees, Hillingdon Hall: Or, The Cockney Squire : a Tale of Country Life:
      There is something humiliating in the idea of getting into a one-horse booby hutch.