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Eight thousand fans could fit in the bleachers and grandstands, with, as a novelty, room for people in 150 cars to watch the game from their flivvers.
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
In the background are two flivvers, which brought them there over bouncy roads.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 30 Aug. 2019
Leader of the campaign is a white man, the county health officer, a former Georgia farm boy who drove a flivver through fields of mud, 36 miles a day to medical school.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 25 July 2017
Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
In the background are two flivvers, which brought them there over bouncy roads.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 30 Aug. 2019
Leader of the campaign is a white man, the county health officer, a former Georgia farm boy who drove a flivver through fields of mud, 36 miles a day to medical school.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 25 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flivver
Noun
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There were literal piles of dead and mangled Russians around the smoldering hulks.David Axe, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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The gleaming and modern hulk might have been rejected by the district’s conservative populace, especially since the Mubaraks had supported hospital fundraising efforts.Sushrut Jangi, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2014
Noun
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Her dog bolted right past her arms and went straight into the crate.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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But when Trump left, the building would return to normal and the flags stuffed in crates.Paula Aceves, Curbed, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Pickford wrote up his research on the Deep Pots wreck.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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An unexpected mechanical failure resulted in a damaging wreck, casting a long shadow over his aspirations for the NASCAR Cup Series Championship 4.David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Golf carts resemble the Joad’s family jalopy in the film classic, The Grapes of Wrath, packed to the hilt with jumbo, floating water mats, some 20 feet in length, colossal floats better suited for the Macy’s Day Parade, and the largest sand robber of them all, the canvas beach cabana.Steve Cambria, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
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Do your annoying neighbors constantly park their old jalopy in front of your home?Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 30 July 2024
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“Flivver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flivver. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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