flivver

n. 廉价小汽车, 失败 vi. 失败, 乘廉价小汽车

发音

US /ˈflɪv.ɚ/
UK /ˈflɪv.ə(ɹ)/

词形变化

flivvers 复数 flivvers

别名

fliver

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.

    加拿大 美国 非正式 过时
  2. 2.

    An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.

    A Ford Model T.

    加拿大 美国 非正式 过时
  3. 3.

    A destroyer of the United States Navy with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons.

    美国 贬义 历史 俚语 政治 军事 航海 交通

词源

Unknown, early 20th c.. A book titled "At the Front in a Flivver" was published in 1917. Cartoonist Tad Dorgan in 1919 claimed to have created the term in his comic strip Judge Rummy.

来源：wiktionary