Crossword clues for clunker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"anything inferior," 1940s, agent noun from clunk (v.), probably in imitation of the sounds made by old machinery. Specific sense of "old car" was in use by 1951 (clunk in the sense "old worn-out machine" is from 1940s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context informal English) A decrepit motor car. 2 (context informal English) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
Wikipedia
Clunker may refer to:
- A decrepit car
- A western Canadian term for a large hiking boot, often found in outdoors stores
- A Cruiser bicycle built during the mid Seventies, in Marin county, California. The inspiration for the Mountain bike.
Usage examples of "clunker".
But the Heraclitean river has claimed all those hand-cranked clunkers and clangers.
I wrote my first novel on a big clunker of a machine that wheezed slightly when it stored information and had a mere 256 kilobits of memory.
A few of the clunker pilots, protected by their personal armor, survived the ruin of their spacecraft.
The only van I can think of is an old clunker Paul used to have when he was going through his manly-hunter phase.
And then the doughnut-shaped Void fighters of the enemy, falling on their prey like raptor birds, had closed with the ground-based Solarian clunkers, taking most of the pressure off the bomber machines.
The men are plump clunkers in pastel romper gear, smiling, plodding, nodding.
American hardware store or military-base PBX, for that matter, is better than the fucking clunkers that the Army uses.
The engine sounded like Mary Jo's old clunker, and she was obviously in a hurry.
The juke, which had been silent for the last few minutes, now began to emit a tired-sounding version of Billy Ray Cyrus's golden clunker, "Achy Breaky Heart.
This had been a year ago, not long after I got my first clunker and had invested twenty dollars in renting one of Darnell's Do-It-Yourself Garage bays to try and replace the carburettor, an experiment that had ended in dismal failure.
These were bicycles, like the first one I ever rode: one-speed clunkers that you braked by reversing the pedals, with fat tires and a basket atop the front wheel to hold your baseball mitt and homework.
Yet at the start of the night when you came out for warm-up and could see all the town clunkers sitting in the back of 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.
You see these clunkers come in with 80,000 miles on them and the pistons so loose the oil just pours through and they get a washing and the speedometer turned back and you hear yourself saying this represents a real bargain, owned by a man with two cars and not 30,000 miles of wear in it.
Fifteen of them, clunkers, none less than three years old, and all of them had been totaled in auto accidents and sold for scrap.
New ships with gleaming aluminum skin and old clunkers with leprosy on the wings.