What is "clunkers"

Usage examples of "clunkers".

The men are plump clunkers in pastel romper gear, smiling, plodding, nodding.

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.

My Duster was in pretty good shape, but the two I'd owned before it were clunkers (modified clunkers.