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
Other Word Forms
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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
“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
The ducks chevy the flies, taking them out of the very mouths of the trout.
From Angling Sketches by Lang, Andrew
Then the dogs exploded outside, probably at some henroost-robbing opossum, and had a chevy through the cocos till they tree’d their game, and bayed it to their hearts’ content.
From At Last by Kingsley, Charles
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
It was subsequently ascertained that the eyes in question were those of a fox, which, being chevied through the town, had sought refuge in the cellar of the edifice occupied by the national Legislature.
From The Best Ghost Stories by Various
I had been told by the village hunters that there were no deer; that they had vanished long since, hounded and crusted and chevied out of season, till life was not worth the living.
From Secret of the Woods by Long, William Joseph
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
"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)
“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 Sea Urchins by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
Well, when he's let loose, don't he go chevying and racing about over everything and into everything that's next or anigh him?
From Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields by Boldrewood, Rolf
It was fine to see even the smallest boarder chevying three day-boys!
From Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War by Pearse, S. B.
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