lunger

lunger

slang A mass of mucus or phlegm produced from one's lungs, throat, or nasal passage by snorting or coughing. The kids sat on the edge of the overpass, hawking lungers at the cars passing below. I had a horrible chest infection, so I spent the entire weekend coughing up lungers in bed.

nose-lunger

slang A mass of mucus or phlegm produced from one's lungs, throat, or nasal passage by snorting or coughing. The kids sat on the edge of the overpass, hawking nose-lungers at the cars passing below. I had a horrible chest infection, so I spent the entire weekend coughing up nose-lungers in bed.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

lunger

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.

nose-lunger

(ˈnozləŋɚ)
n. a mass of nasal mucus. (see also lunger.) Beavis thought the funniest thing in the world was having a nose-lunger dangling from his chin.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • nose-lunger
  • snork
  • snorked
  • snorking
  • snorks
  • nose-picking
  • lung butter
  • lung-butter
  • nose-pick
  • pick (one's) nose
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