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Chevvy
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Noun
en Chevy.
en 1955 Murray Weingarten The Promise of the Future Life in a Kibbutz: The Only Book of Its Kind in English New York, N.Y. The Reconstructionist Press 152 https://archive.org/details/lifeinkibbutz0000wein/page/152/mode/1up 55-7308 39318510 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.”
en 1975 w:Robert Lipsyte Designated Heroes, Ranking Gods, All-Star Holy Persons SportsWorld: An American Dreamland New York, N.Y. Quadrangle Books September 1977 249 https://archive.org/details/sportsworldameri0000robe/page/249/mode/1up 0-8129-6286-9 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.
en 2016 Liz Cowley; Donough O’Brien Putney, London Serial Damage Chatham, Kent Urbane Publications 35 https://archive.org/details/serialdamage0000cowl/page/35/mode/1up 978-1-911129-45-5 ‘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.’