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/ˈflɪv.ɚ/ · noun
(colloquial, dated, Canada, US) 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.
Use flivver when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Flivver means (colloquial, dated, Canada, US) An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive..
Common synonyms include jalopy, tin Lizzie, banger, beater.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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