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clunker
noun- an old, beat-up car US, 1942
The original military usage in the 1940s applied to any old vehicle or machine. By the 1960s, applied almost exclusively to a car. - The parking lot at Devil’s Slide was jammed with vehicles: flowered hippie vans, city clunkers, organic pickups with shingled gypsy houses, and a dusty pack of Harley-Davidsons. — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 99, 1978
- Banged up, pounded out, dented-in old clunkers with "21" or "99" or "45" painted haphazardly on their doors and tops. — San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, p. 6, 1 July 1979
- He had made friends with the few attractive women who had wandered in, deciding he was more interesting than the rusting clunkers he was selling. — Stephen Cannell, Big Con, p. 28, 1997
- an inferior item US
- [O]ne of the all-time clunkers of history[.] — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 14, 1971
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