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Definition of flivver in English: flivvernoun ˈflɪvəˈflɪvər North American dated, informal A cheap car or aircraft, especially one in bad condition. Example sentencesExamples - The score is unusual in that it does indeed illustrate the images, sometimes, as in the ‘Sunday Traffic’ sequence, with its convoy of flivvers chugging out of the city.
- In 1915, the telegrapher would drive his flivver to work across the new Ironton - Russell bridge, eat breakfast at the old ‘Y’ for a nickel, and employ that very same Morse technology that had dispatched trains here since 1887.
- You look up at the familiar rumble of that inveterate high-wing flivver of general aviation, the little monocoupe Luscombe 8.
- You can't make flivvers without steel-and you can't make tragedies without social instability.
- Foy motored into isolated regions where only the camel roamed, single-handedly engaging highwaymen and time and again drawing on his remarkable resourcefulness to bring his trademark flivver back to life.
Origin Early 20th century: of unknown origin. Definition of flivver in US English: flivvernounˈflɪvərˈflivər North American dated, informal A cheap car or aircraft, especially one in bad condition. Example sentencesExamples - You look up at the familiar rumble of that inveterate high-wing flivver of general aviation, the little monocoupe Luscombe 8.
- In 1915, the telegrapher would drive his flivver to work across the new Ironton - Russell bridge, eat breakfast at the old ‘Y’ for a nickel, and employ that very same Morse technology that had dispatched trains here since 1887.
- The score is unusual in that it does indeed illustrate the images, sometimes, as in the ‘Sunday Traffic’ sequence, with its convoy of flivvers chugging out of the city.
- Foy motored into isolated regions where only the camel roamed, single-handedly engaging highwaymen and time and again drawing on his remarkable resourcefulness to bring his trademark flivver back to life.
- You can't make flivvers without steel-and you can't make tragedies without social instability.
Origin Early 20th century: of unknown origin. |