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fliver

US/ˈflɪvɚ/

fliver is the alternative spelling of flivver.

Meaning of flivver

Noun

flivver (plural flivvers)

  1. (Canada, US, colloquial, dated) An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
    • Billy being too poor to own a car, had hired a cheap flivver for the day, and was purposely ten minutes behind the time, but to his disgust found the procession not yet started.1920 July, Lyman Seelye, “Quite a Picnic”, in The Overland Monthly
    1. (Canada, US, colloquial, dated, originally) A Ford Model T.
  2. (US, derogatory, historical, slang) A destroyer of the United States Navy with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons.

Forms of fliver

pluralflivers

Questions about fliver

What is fliver the alternative spelling of?
Fliver is the alternative spelling of flivver.
How do you pronounce fliver?
Fliver is pronounced /ˈflɪvɚ/ (US).

Words near fliver in the dictionary

  1. Flitton and Greenfield
  2. flitts
  3. flitty
  4. Flitwick
  5. flitwite
  6. fliver
  7. flivers
  8. flivver
  9. flivvers
  10. flix
  11. flixel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fliver (page history and authors); flivver (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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