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flivver
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fliv·ver  (flvr)
n. Slang
An automobile, especially one that is small, inexpensive, and old.

[Origin unknown.]

flivver [ˈflɪvə]
n
an old, cheap, or battered car
[of unknown origin]


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But we can probably count on one thing: It won't be much like the lives of that ``typical family of the 21st century,'' the Jetsons, with their airborne flivvers and space-age styles.
The task for the Negro artist, then, is to observe the confusion of rusting flivvers, vanishing forests, migratory populations and expiring faiths which confronts him and reveal its meaning in a felicitous manner.
 
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