[Named from Croydon in Surrey.] A kind of two-wheeled carriage of the gig class, introduced about 1850, originally of wicker-work, but afterwards made of wood.
1880. Daily News, 2 Dec., 6/6. A croydon, driven by a farmer.
1890. Mrs. B. M. Croker, Two Masters, xxii. 139. As I clambered into the croydon beside her.
