clunker
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (GA) IPA: /ˈklʌŋkɚ/
clunker (plural clunkers)
- (informal) A decrepit motor car.
- 2004, Teralee E. M. Bird, What the Herald Angel Sang (Seraphim Trilogy Book One), ISBN 9781411617216:
- The only rig nobody'd recognize is that clunker that Vic drove here in, and he won't take it.
- 2004, Teralee E. M. Bird, What the Herald Angel Sang (Seraphim Trilogy Book One), ISBN 9781411617216:
- (informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
- 1974, Erma Bombeck, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yyoTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=igUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7135,581583&dq=clunker+-car+-truck+-vehicle+-automobile+-drove+-drive+-cash Who's Been Playing At Erma's Typewriter?]," Ocala Star-Banner, 3 Oct., p. 12A (retrieved 2 Sep. 2009):
- I bought an old clunker of a typewriter.
- 2006, Elizabeth Crane, "Books: Best book by a Chicago author ↗" (Review of Trouble by Patrick Somerville), Time Out Chicago, 28 Dec. (retrieved 2 Sep. 2009):
- All of the stories have a subtle undercurrent of brutality, and the writing is consistently sharp, direct and darkly funny, and there’s not a clunker in the bunch.
- 1974, Erma Bombeck, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yyoTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=igUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7135,581583&dq=clunker+-car+-truck+-vehicle+-automobile+-drove+-drive+-cash Who's Been Playing At Erma's Typewriter?]," Ocala Star-Banner, 3 Oct., p. 12A (retrieved 2 Sep. 2009):
- Russian: развалюха
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