flivver C2 Topic:Transportation US /ˈflɪv.ɚ/ UK /ˈflɪv.ə(ɹ)/ See IPA manual Freq #157031 Meanings 1 noun an automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive. Already this evening you have called it a bus, a boat, a kite, a star-hound, a wagon, an aerial flivver, a sky-chariot, a space-eating wampus, and I don't know what else. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · an automobile or cart,... bangerbeaterbucket of boltsbucket of rustclunkercratecrockflivver 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. Topics Transportation External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # flivver **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈflɪv.ɚ/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈflɪv.ə(ɹ)/ **Frequency rank:** 157031 ## Meanings 1. an automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive. ## Examples - Already this evening you have called it a bus, a boat, a kite, a star-hound, a wagon, an aerial flivver, a sky-chariot, a space-eating wampus, and I don't know what else. ## Synonyms - banger - beater - bucket of bolts - bucket of rust - clunker - crate - crock - flivver ## 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. ## Topics - Transportation markdown