clunker
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 7
/ˈklʌŋkɚ/
Definition of clunker
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(informal)A decrepit motor car.
“The only rig nobody'd recognize is that clunker that Vic drove here in, and he won't take it.”
“2008 July 9, Jacqueline Mitchell, “America's Most Stolen Vehicles”, in Forbes magazine, So don't think for a moment that your old but tired vehicle matters only to you. Your clunker is cash money to professional thieves.”
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noun
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(informal)A decrepit motor car.
“The only rig nobody'd recognize is that clunker that Vic drove here in, and he won't take it.”
“2008 July 9, Jacqueline Mitchell, “America's Most Stolen Vehicles”, in Forbes magazine, So don't think for a moment that your old but tired vehicle matters only to you. Your clunker is cash money to professional thieves.”
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(informal)Anything in poor condition or of poor quality.
“I bought an old clunker of a typewriter.”
“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.”
- (Cornwall, obsolete)The trachea or windpipe.
- (Cornwall, obsolete)The uvula.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From clunk + -er.
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