Flivver
[FLIH-vər]
Part of speech: noun
Origin: Unknown, early 20th century
1.
A cheap car or aircraft, especially one in bad condition.
Examples of Flivver in a sentence
"My dad is so frugal, he refuses to give up his flivver until it can't be driven."
"It may look like a flivver, but that car served me well through my 20s."
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