flivver

/fliv-er/US // ˈflɪv ər //UK // (ˈflɪvə) //

潜水艇,潜水器,潜水员,潜水者

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Older Slang. an automobile, especially one that is small, inexpensive, and old.
- : Slang. something of unsatisfactory quality or inferior grade.

In practice, urban folks like me rarely have a garage in which to charge their whizzy little electric flivver.
The trip had been a terrible flivver, one of the worst that the Giant team had ever made while swinging around the circle.
So weve made another flivver, growled McCarney, pounding the table angrily with his fist.
Bert stopped his ancient and battered flivver at the corner where a group of overalled loungers was gathered.
Bert drew up at the rickety porch and stopped the flivver with its usual shuddering jerk.
Nor did he know how he reached his parked flivver with Joan a limp sobbing bundle in his arms.