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junker
noun- an old and broken-down vehicle US, 1948
- I backed off and made a fast run at it, driving the junker straight into the hill like a cannon ball. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 152, 1966
- As the Fury junkers descended into the cresent, the line of customer cars peeled out[.] — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 512, 1992
- — John Edwards, Auto Dictionary, p. 89, 1993
- For the last two weeks, Beano had been selling dead-sleds and junkers to unsuspecting blue-hairs at Bob’s Auto Ranch. — Stephen Cannell, Big Con, p. 28, 1997
- a heroin addict US, 1922
- In one small town while we were making a check I found a junker and had him arraigned before a county judge for commitment to take a cure. — William J. Spillard and Pence James, Needle in a Haystack, p. 89, 1945
- I later learned that all junkers talk in terms of beauty and unreality when they’ve been “smoking.” — Ethel Waters, His Eye is on the Sparrow, p. 113, 1951
- in competitive surfing, an extremely low score US
- — Trevor Cralle, The Surfin’ary, p. 61, 1991
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