flivver

(ˈflɪvɚ)

n. an old car. (Once a nickname for the Model-T Ford.) Whose flivver is that parked out in the street?

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This is true--the money spent for the new flivver is not the best of investments.

Under the hood; you wouldn't buy a car without kicking the tires; don't purchase a pistol without checking just as carefully

The extra bulk and weight of a whitewater raft for a float means a more expensive Beaver becomes a two-person flivver.

Alaska on a shoestring: who says you need a guide to bowhunt the 49th state?

Then, instead of writing a timeline-driven narrative that followed Ford along his journey, Watts divided Ford's life and impact on the world into sections--"The Road to Fame," "The Miracle Maker," "The Flivver King," "The Long Twilight"--and subsections "Emperor," "Father," "Bigot," etc.

THE SAGE OF DEARBORN

Came the eight-hour day, the finance company (after old Italian masters), the flivver, the radio, TV, and the atom.

Fifty years ago in ETC: war words and tired symbols

17) In his book The Flivver King, Upton Sinclair described the notoriously anti-Semitic Henry Ford dreaming of an American fascist movement that "pledged to put down the Reds and preserve the property interests of the country; to oust the Bolshevik [Roosevelt] from the White House and all his pink professors from the government services .

Upton Sinclair, The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America (Pasadena, CA 1937), 236.

Profits uber Alles! American Corporations and Hitler. (Review Essays/Notes Critiques)

The task for the Negro artist, then, is to observe the confusion of rusting flivvers, vanishing forests, migratory populations and expiring faiths which confronts him and reveal its meaning in a felicitous manner.

Mediating "race" and "nation:" the cultural politics of 'The Messenger.' (magazine)

From the unlikely beginnings of rickety flivvers and a tent city grew the annual migration that's supplied so much of Sarasota's prosperity.

The first snowbirds arrive

This exciting event held in conjunction with the Gladney Cup golf tournament, will take you back in time to the dawn of golf in America, an era of flappers, flivvers, and flaming youth

Gladney Center for Adoption Presents The 2003 Gladney Cup Golf Tournament; Fact Sheet/Press Release

broke down frequently, requiring their owners to "get out and get under" their flivvers to make necessary repairs.

Those were the days that we don't miss

You can't make flivvers without steel--and you can't make tragedies without social instability.

Science fiction and a rhetorical analysis of the "Literature Myth"

The flivvers Bonnie and Clyde stole were boxy Model Ts, which came only in black.

A century of stagnation

Ford and his Model T, or Tin Lizzies and Flivvers as they were nicknamed, were so successful that they outgrew the Piquette plant by 1910.

Henry Ford's Piquette Avenue Factory Celebrates its 100th Anniversary with Weekend Events

This leads to a scene in my mind of Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice and (possibly) Rumsfeld all decked out in the black garb of the Keystone Kops hopping into their flivvers and tearing off in five different directions in pursuit of a baddie who is hiding around the corner watching them.

Letters in the Editor's Mailbag

But we can probably count on one thing: It won't be much like the lives of that ``typical family of the 21st century,'' the Jetsons, with their airborne flivvers and space-age styles.

THE FUTURE IS NOW; OUR LOOK AT THE 21ST-CENTURY WHAT KEEPING UP WITH THE JETSONS - ER, JONES - WILL BE LIKE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

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