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lung·er

1   [luhng-er]
noun Informal.
a person who has chronic lung disease, especially tuberculosis.
Origin:
1890–95; lung + -er1

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lung·er

2   [luhn-jer]
noun
a person or thing that lunges.
Origin:
1835–45; lunge1 + -er1
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lunge1 (lʌndʒ)
 
—n
1.  a sudden forward motion
2.  fencing a thrust made by advancing the front foot and straightening the back leg, extending the sword arm forwards
 
—vb
3.  to move or cause to move with a lunge
4.  (intr) fencing to make a lunge
 
[C18: shortened form of obsolete C17 allonge, from French allonger to stretch out (one's arm), from Late Latin ēlongāre to lengthen. Compare elongate]
 
'lunger1
 
—n

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lunger definition


  1. n.
    a large and nasty mass of phlegm coughed up from the lungs and spat out. (See also nose-lunger.) : Wayne loved to pretend that he was going to plant a lunger on somebody's shoe.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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