flivver

[ fliv-er ]

/ ˈflɪv ər /

Older Slang. an automobile, especially one that is small, inexpensive, and old.

Slang. something of unsatisfactory quality or inferior grade.

Origin of flivver

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10; origin uncertain

Several "flivver" ambulances stood across the way, new and roughly made, destined for the front.

Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer |Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Mr. McNutt sends me out with a flivver to buy wool around the country.

Torchy As A Pa |Sewell Ford
It would always remain one of the inexplicable miracles to the girl that the flivver did not capsize.

The Trail of Conflict |Emilie Baker Loring
It must have been awful in that flivver, coming along here, Harry said.

Roy Blakeley's Silver Fox Patrol |Percy Keese Fitzhugh

The girl who planned the flivver that shut her crowd out of college thought herself a wizard.

Marjorie Dean, College Senior |Pauline Lester

flivver

/ (ˈflɪvə) /

an old, cheap, or battered car

C20: of unknown origin