Greatest Generation · 1901–1927 · Transport flivver
Flivver
A cheap, beat-up or unreliable automobile.
IN PLAIN ENGLISH“An old unreliable car”
THE VIBEJazz-age, punchy and playful
USE IT INJazz-age conversation and 1920s culture
USE IT LIKE THIS
“Their flivver rattled all the way into town.”
WORD ORIGIN
Associated with early-20th-century American speech, jazz-age culture and the Prohibition era.