chevy
Americanverb (used with object)
-
to chase; run after.
-
to harass; nag; torment.
verb (used without object)
noun
-
chevies
plural
-
a hunting cry.
-
a hunt, chase, or pursuit.
-
the game of prisoner's base.
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of chevy
First recorded in 1775–85; perhaps short for Chevy Chase
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
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 Charles Kingsley
They were shyer than usual, and led me a long chevy.
From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Bertram Mitford
“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 George Manville Fenn
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 James Runciman
His father, a banker, was delighted, and chevied the boy into politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
"Like as not we'll get into a free fight with the Windsorites when we get there, and be chevied off the ice," he complained.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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 William Joseph Long
"I expect, if the truth's known, it's him 's been doin' the chevying."
From Sea Urchins by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
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 C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Scott-Moncrieff
You omitted the trifling detail that the said brute was chevying anybody.
From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford
One can imagine a gay young swallow darting about in the evening, having quite satisfied himself as to food, and thinking only in his frolicsome way of chevying and frightening the innocent insect tribe.
From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by William Black
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 S. B. Pearse
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
