flivver

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If Marathon prefers not to call a flivver a flivver, I shall not expostulate.

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  • He led the way back to his dilapidated flivver, after assigning his deputized men to continue the search for either Honey Sanders or the Doc Savage aide named Ham Brooks Perhaps the constable knew--since he was a small-town law officer himself--that the bronze man held an honorary commission on the New York police force. —  089 - The Flying Goblin
  • When we fly a gyro-flivver, we push air backward and move forward. —  GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION
  • Roger knew the highlands, and soon the flivver was bounding over the spires of the Aventine Mountains. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
  • He released the cables, relanded the flivver, and trotted back to the peak. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
  • She returned from the flivver, bearing her handbag. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
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