flivver

English

A flivver.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈflɪvɚ/

  Rhymes: -ɪvə(r)

Noun

flivver (plural flivvers)

1. An automobile, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
   • 1920 July, Lyman Seelye, “Quite a Picnic”^[1], The Overland Monthly: 

     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.

   • 1998, Nigel Anthony Sellars, Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930, University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 9780806130057, OL 683367M, page 180:

     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.

Synonyms

• jalopy, tin Lizzie