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Usage English
Meaning & History
A literary place name. There is a famous old poem called "The Ballad of Chevy Chase". A chase is a parcel of hunting land, and Chevy refers to the Cheviot Hills on the Scottish border.Comedian Chevy Chase took his name from this poem, which is mentioned in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.