flivver
Americannoun
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Older Slang. an automobile, especially one that is small, inexpensive, and old.
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Slang. something of unsatisfactory quality or inferior grade.
noun
Etymology
Origin of flivver
An Americanism dating back to 1905–10; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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When Daddy drove a flivver and raccoon coats were all the rage, West Coast football took a rumble seat to none.
From Time Magazine Archive
A sweating cop whistled the flivver to a stop, and out popped Wayne Morse.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dwane Wallace refused, doggedly set about finding civilian markets once it became crystal-clear that the day of the flying flivver had not yet quite arrived.
From Time Magazine Archive
The professor installs a crude flubberator in a model T Ford, impetuously bounces off into the blue: with flubber the flivver can actually fly.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then, upon a day, Fred Ross patched the broken flivver and went to Datil for grub.
From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.
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