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
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
“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
They were shyer than usual, and led me a long chevy.
From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt 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
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
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
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
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 expect, if the truth's known, it's him's been doin' the chevying."
From More Cargoes 1897 by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
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 Black, William
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)
“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
You omitted the trifling detail that the said brute was chevying anybody.
From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram
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