2. Noun. (informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clunker
1. a jalopy [n -S] - See also: jalopy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clunker
Literary usage of Clunker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"... is a couple of stores and a lot of driveways disappearing into the trees -
and every second or third driveway will have a parked clunker for sale. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"Clum, benumbed. "My hands are dum with the cold." Clunk, to swallow. That action
by which food passes from the tongue into the pharynx. clunker, the uvula. ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1868)
"... ami lo»k with anxie'y and alarm inward the final issue ; but they are all in
vo'vi-d iii the clunker, (he failure of one or more institutions, ..."
4. The Glory and the Shame of Englandby Charles Edwards Lester by Charles Edwards Lester (1842)
"The Expedition of Humphry clunker. By T. Smollett, MD With a Memoir of the Author,
by T. Roscoe, Esq., and Illustrations by George Cruikshank. ..."
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