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A flivver is an American slang term used during the early part of the 20th century to refer to any small car that gave a rough ride, esp. one that is small, inexpensive, and old. A contemporary term was a "Tin Lizzy" (referring to a Ford Model T). The term started to go out of style by the late 1930s or early 1940s, replaced by the use of jalopy in the writings of John Steinbeck (''In Dubious Battle'', 1936) and especially by Jack Kerouac in ''On the Road'' (1957). ==Examples== * From ''Free Air'', a novel by Sinclair Lewis (1919): To the Easterner, a drive from New York to Cape Cod, over asphalt, is viewed as heroic, but here were cars that had casually started on thousand-mile vacations. She kept pace not only with large cars touring from St. Louis or Detroit to Glacier Park and Yellowstone, but also she found herself companionable with families of workmen, headed for a new town and a new job, and driving because a flivver, bought second-hand and soon to be sold again, was cheaper than trains. * From "You Can Make Out Their Voices" by Whittaker Chambers, ''New Masses'' (1931): Most of the men had driven over in flivvers. * ''The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America'', title of a 1937 book by Upton Sinclair * From ''Brave New World'', a novel by Aldous Huxley published 1932: Because our world is not the same as Othello's world. You can't make flivvers without steel — and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now.〔Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World. London: Vintage, 2004 (), p. 193.〕 * From ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', a novel set in the 1930s by Harper Lee (1960): One night in an excessive spurt of high spirits, the boys backed around the square in a borrowed flivver, resisted arrest by Maycomb's ancient beadle, Mr. Connor, and locked him in the court-house outhouse.〔Lee, Harper. ''To Kill a Mockingbird''〕 * From the ''Wall Street Journal'' (2012): It was, first of all, an advertising construct, a fiction created by the oil and lodging industries in the early 20th century to coax Americans out on the road in their flivvers and Packards.〔Neil, Dan, Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2012, page R2.〕 * From "It's Nice To Go Trav'lin" By Frank Sinatra: :::And the Hudson River :::Makes you start to quiver :::Like the latest ''flivver'' :::That's simply drippin' with chrome * From "The Wild Years" by Ernest Hemingway (1962): The luge is the Swiss flivver. *From "The green mile" by Stephen King (1996) *He walked strong up the Green Mile to my office, and there he dropped to his knees to pray with Brother Schuster, who had driven down from the Heavenly Light Baptist Church in his flivver. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flivver」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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