Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) a Chevrolet automobile.

1929		M. Levin Reporter 314: Dropped their tail light —! Chasing a Chev . . . !
1933		G. Milburn ‘A Pretty Cute Little Stunt’ in Brookhouser These Were Our Years (1959) 159: I [...] got in my Chivy and drove right on down to the station.
1935		Z.N. Hurston Mules and Men (1995) 61: A hasty good-bye [...] and the wheels of the Chevvie split Orlando wide open – headed southwest for corn(likker) and song.
1936		Mirror (Perth) 15 Aug. 22/1: We wouldn't go into Barrack-street with our mouse-colored Chevs or Fords.
1937		Georgia White ‘Walking The Street’ 🎵 Now I got a little old Chevvy.
1942		N. Algren Never Come Morning (1988) 10: Now if I can convince the Finger to borrow that Chevie.
1948		J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 122: You got his Chevvy coupe out there?
1949		N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 34: A whole family wiped out in a secondhand Chevvie.
1951		‘The Moral Booster’ in Banglestien’s Bar n.p.: I thought she’d be a little shaken up after the car accident [...] with the Chevvy.
1953		S. Frazee ‘Graveyard Shift’ in Best of Manhunt (2019) [ebook] Webster came in with a pickup-and-hold on a 1949 blue Chev with three men.
1955		‘Blackie’ Audett Rap Sheet 151: A brand-new Chevvy sedan.
1955		D. Niland Shiralee 206: It could have been anything from a Chev to a Plymouth.
1956		N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 283: A car, sounding more like Chevie than a Ford.
1957		Kerouac On The Road (1972) 88: Her brother’s name was Rickey. He had a ’38 Chevy.
1960		C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 10: I pulled the Chevvy around in front and got out.
1968		D. Ireland Chantic Bird 161: The big Chev floated over the bitumen, in and out of the traffic.
1970		E. Thompson Garden of Sand (1981) 484: A black ’40 Chevy coupe crept up the gravel drive.
1976		J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 81: Hell [...] the Chev only needs it every ten thousand miles.
1981		A.K. Shulman On the Stroll 125: Down the street rolled the plain green Chevy Prince knew as the wheels of the pussy posse.
1986		T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 72: Dad’s Chev truck is out there.
1998		P. Doyle (con. late 1950s) Amaze Your Friends (2019) 69: The arrived [...] with a new Chrolet. We transferred the gear into the Chev.
1999		Indep. 27 Aug. 1: Virgin Mary ‘appears’ on clapped-out Chevy.
2000		Sun. Times Culture 12 Mar. 7: I’m just as likely to buy a ’75 Chevy as a Mercedes.
2004		T. Winton ‘Boner McPharlin’s Moll’ in Turning (2005) 256: The big tricked-up Chevy motor idled away. [Ibid.] 280: He cranked the Chev into life.
2006		C. Miller Salt and Honey 141: You never seen a Chevy before? [...] Just fetched her off the boat in Durbs. Beauty, hey?
2009		(con. 1960s) J. Ellroy Blood’s a Rover 23: Bobby Gallard had a Rocket Olds. Phil Irwin had a 409 Chevy.
2015		S. King Finders Keepers (2016) 27: Freddy drove the Chevy Biscane which was old.