Chevvy

plural Chevvies

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Chevy.

   Can’t drive but one car at a time, I eat only one meal a day. Clothes. You see I don’t care about clothes. When I first came down here I saw this millionaire, I wondered how he could wear such cheap suits and drive a Chevvy. Now I understand. He knew he got it.

   1975, Robert Lipsyte, “Designated Heroes, Ranking Gods, All-Star Holy Persons”, in SportsWorld: An American Dreamland, New York, N.Y.: Quadrangle Books, published September 1977, →ISBN, page 249

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   One of my kibbutz jobs has been to drive a tractor. As a matter of fact I got the same sort of a thrill from it at first as I got from driving that Chevvy when I first earned my New York driver’s license. But as the General Motors people will probably be proud to confirm, “any dumb cluck can drive a Chevvy.”

   1955, Murray Weingarten, “The Promise of the Future”, in Life in a Kibbutz: The Only Book of Its Kind in English, New York, N.Y.: The Reconstructionist Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 152

   ‘You ride a motorcycle, don’t you?’ / Oliver was puzzled by the question. ‘I have two bikes at home. One’s an old Indian ‘Scout’ – in bits. I’m slowly rebuilding it. The other’s a Harley, which I ride to work if the weather’s good. The rest of the time I drive a Chevvy.’

   2016, Liz Cowley, Donough O’Brien, “Putney, London”, in Serial Damage, Chatham, Kent: Urbane Publications, →ISBN, page 35