flivver
Meanings
Plural: flivvers
Noun
- An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
- An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
- A Ford Model T.
- A destroyer of the United States Navy with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons.
Origin / Etymology
Unknown, early 20th c.; in 1919, cartoonist Tad Dorgan claimed to have created the term in his comic strip "Judge Rummy".
Synonyms
banger, beater, bucket of bolts, bucket of rust, clunker, crate, crock, flivver, hooptie, jalopy, junker, lemon, old banger, rattletrap, rustbucket, shed, shitbox, shitbucket, shitcan, shitpot, tin Lizzie, wreck
Scrabble Score: 16
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