German slang for a Trabant, just about the crappiest automobile that has ever been built (our Edsel running a close second), with some parts made out of cardboard, yes, CARDBOARD, an engine that seems like there's a mouse running around on a rubber band, and thick noxious black smoke constantly spewng from the exhaust. Once junkheaped, this car is a recycler's nightmare: along German roads and in junkyards, you'll see thousands of them in various stages of decay, littering those places.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods