chevy
Americanverb (used with object)
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to chase; run after.
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to harass; nag; torment.
verb (used without object)
noun
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a hunting cry.
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a hunt, chase, or pursuit.
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the game of prisoner's base.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of chevy
First recorded in 1775–85; perhaps short for Chevy Chase
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The classic red 1965 chevy driven by John Travolta in Pulp Fiction looks set to be returned to rightful owner Quentin Tarantino 17 years after being stolen from outside the film-maker's LA home.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2013
The single drove the chevy to the levee, and the levee is now officially dry.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Yah-ah! yah-ah-ah-ah; go home wi’ yer!” shouted the lads again, running up, evidently meaning to chevy the Grange boys away; and this seemed an easy task, for the new-comers were all bigger and stronger.
From Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home by Fenn, George Manville
Besides, it would be courting plunder to leave the waggons here in charge of ‘boys’ only, as we should have to do if we started to chevy those schelms.
From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Mitford, Bertram
“Did he chevy you far, Geoffry?” went on Mr Santorex, in the same bantering tone.
From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram
He was on the scut, the old rip—catch him leave her—and I gits excited, and, like a fool, I chevies him on.
From The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary by Runciman, James
A colonel at the tragi-comedy of Bull Run, he chevied his men so relentlessly they cursed him but kept better discipline than most.
From Time Magazine Archive
His father, a banker, was delighted, and chevied the boy into politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
On April 11 the mob raged round the meeting-place of the Privy Council, rooms under the Parliament House, and chevied the Chancellor into a narrow close, whence he was hardly rescued.
From Historical Mysteries by Lang, Andrew
In town or in country alike the poor dear has been chevied and chased.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
If she retreats to her chill and fireless bed chamber, even there she may be chevied by her brothers, sisters, and mother.
From How to Fail in Literature; a lecture by Lang, Andrew
Boys would be chevying one another in the Square, and he would interfere, taking the side of the little ones and lecturing the big.
From Swann's Way by Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
There's a Navy ship chevying us and catching up like mad.
From A Traitor's Wooing by Hill, Headon
“Someone up the road is—that’s why I was chevying those ‘budmashes.’
From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Mitford, Bertram
"I expect, if the truth's known, it's him's been doin' the chevying."
From More Cargoes 1897 by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
"I expect, if the truth's known, it's him 's been doin' the chevying."
From Sea Urchins by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
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