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flivver
flivver
English
Noun
flivver (plural flivvers)
- (colloquial, dated, Canada, US) An automobile, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
- 1998, Sellars, Nigel Anthony, 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.