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In some senses, clunker is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
behind, great, last, old, parked, together
VERB + CLUNKER
driving, recognize, time, wonder
CLUNKER + NOUN
anything, car, inspection, it's, lot, money, personality, vic
PREP.
in, on
ADV.
such
noun
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.
Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
It seemed silly for the crowd to applaud or groan over what you had already felt in your fingers or even in your arms as you braced to shoot or for that matter in your eyes: when he was hot he could see the separate threads wound into the strings looping the hoop. Yet at the start of the game when you came out for warm-up and could see all the town clunkers sitting in the back of the bleachers elbowing each other and the cheerleaders wisecracking with the racier male teachers, the crowd then seemed right inside you, your liver and lungs and stomach.
I bought an old clunker of a typewriter.
The only rig nobody'd recognize is that clunker that Vic drove here in, and he won't take it.
Wiktionary2008 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 p
WiktionaryIt seemed silly for the crowd to applaud or groan over what you had already felt in your fingers or even in your arms as you braced to shoot or for that matter in your eyes: when he was hot he could s
WiktionaryHis old clunker isn't worth anything.
Tatoeba · #286176This car is a clunker.
Tatoeba · #877994There was an old clunker parked just behind my new sports car.
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In some senses, clunker is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.