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Chevy

proper nounnounproper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈʃɛvi//

A vehicle of this make.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Variant of ChevroletClipping of Chevrolet, a brand of car produced by General Motors.

    Chevy has introduced a new model for 1964: the Malibu. See your dealer today!

    GM [General Motors] namecalled Chevy’s Ford-beating sales in its press release.

Etymology

Diminutive of Chevrolet: Clipping of Chevrolet + -y.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA vehicle of this make.

    I saw a late-model Chevy pull around back. That would have been around 10 PM.

    Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry […]

proper noun

  1. 1

    A unisex given name

Forms

plural
Chevies
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).