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junker

[juhng-ker] / ˈdʒʌŋ kər /






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So when a crew of construction workers comes to tow the junker away, the outraged children run home to share their misfortune with their parents, only to be quickly rebuffed.

From Salon Jan. 24, 2023

I said, “Listen, if you have any old junker I could use, I swear I will come back here tomorrow and buy the most expensive bike you have.”

From Washington Post Sep. 11, 2021

Automobile appraisers tell you what your beat-up old jalopy or junker may or may not be worth in the new series “Sticker Shock.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 27, 2018

“It was a half a junker, but it was fast as hell,” Doyle said.

From Washington Times Oct. 1, 2016

Every so often he’d bang the pipe loudly on another junker, as if he were trying to scare something out of the shadows.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen




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