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
The ducks chevy the flies, taking them out of the very mouths of the trout.
From Angling Sketches by Lang, Andrew
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
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
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
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
"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 Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
You shouldn’t have gone chevying on after those schepsels all by yourself.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Mitford, Bertram
“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
Where would I have been with that beast chevying me if you hadn’t come on the scene.
From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram
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
There's no pull in being outside now with all the world chevying after you and only half rations of food and sleep.'
From Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields by Boldrewood, Rolf
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