English Explanatory Dictionary

flivver

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
  2. A Ford Model T.
  3. A destroyer of the United States Navy with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons.

Pronunciation

/ˈflɪv.ɚ/ /ˈflɪv.ə(ɹ)/

Word forms

flivver flivvers

Etymology

Unknown, early 20th c.. A book titled "At the Front in a Flivver" was published in 1917. Cartoonist Tad Dorgan in 1919 claimed to have created the term in his comic strip Judge Rummy.

Synonyms

jalopy tin Lizzie banger beater bucket of bolts bucket of rust clunker crate crock flivver hooptie junker lemon old banger rattletrap rustbucket shed shitbox shitpot shitcan shitbucket wreck
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