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flivver

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈflɪv.ɚ/
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/ˈflɪv.ɚ/ · /ˈflɪv.ə(ɹ)/ (UK)

Definition of flivver

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Canada, US, colloquial, dated)An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
    “Billy being too poor to own a car, had hired a cheap flivver for the day, and was purposely ten minutes behind the time, but to his disgust found the procession not yet started.”
    “Shortly after daylight a procession of mule-drawn waggons, broken-down flivvers, and buggies begins wheeling in from the countryside ...”
    “These workers were often joined by impoverished small farmers from Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri who pooled their resources to buy a flivver and follow the harvest into the Dakotas and Canada.”
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noun

  1. (Canada, US, colloquial, dated)An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
    “Billy being too poor to own a car, had hired a cheap flivver for the day, and was purposely ten minutes behind the time, but to his disgust found the procession not yet started.”
    “Shortly after daylight a procession of mule-drawn waggons, broken-down flivvers, and buggies begins wheeling in from the countryside ...”
    “These workers were often joined by impoverished small farmers from Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri who pooled their resources to buy a flivver and follow the harvest into the Dakotas and Canada.”
  2. (Canada, US, colloquial, dated)An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
  3. (US, derogatory, historical, slang)A destroyer of the United States Navy with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons.

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Etymology

Unknown, early 20th c.. A book titled "At the Front in a Flivver" was published in 1917. Cartoonist Tad Dorgan in 1919 claimed to have created the term in his comic strip Judge Rummy.

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