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| —n | |
| 1. | chiefly (US) a dilapidated old car or other machine |
| 2. | something that fails: the novel's last line is a clunker |
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Clunker
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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Word Origin & History
clunker
"anything inferior," 1940s, from clunk. Specific sense of "old car" was in use by 1951.
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Slang Dictionary
clunker definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
They purchase new, high-efficiency heating and cooling equipment and then attach it to a clunker of a duct system.
Even if the old clunker is still chugging along, you can always drum up reasons why you need to buy a new one.
Make sure you're prepared before upgrading your old clunker.
Or that a car dealer's profit motive is to deliver an old clunker instead of the new car you paid for.
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