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flivver
UK /ˈflɪv.ə(ɹ)/ US /ˈflɪv.ɚ/
noun 3
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3ADJ.
cheap
VERB + FLIVVER
buy, hired
FLIVVER + NOUN
day
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noun
1
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 ...
2
An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
3
A destroyer of the United States Navy with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons.
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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.
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Shortly after daylight a procession of mule-drawn waggons, broken-down flivvers, and buggies begins wheeling in from the countryside ...
Wiktionary03
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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