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  • noun comedy A popular circus clown routine whereby an implausibly large amount of clowns would climb into or out of a small car.
  • noun manufacturing A bait-and-switch car.

Etymologies

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From a comedy routine first invented by the Cole Brothers Circus during the 1950s.

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