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
Noun Inflected Forms
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
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
As we entered the little witch flapped her kerchief at us, and shooed as though we were two of the intrusive fowl whom she was wont to chevy out of the house.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
“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
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 wonder if that’s the brute that chevied the Alexandria post cart last year?
From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Mitford, Bertram
"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)
"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)
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
You shouldn’t have gone chevying on after those schepsels all by yourself.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Mitford, Bertram
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
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