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clunkers

clunkers is the plural of clunker.

Meaning of clunker

Noun (1)

clunker (plural clunkers)

  1. (informal) A decrepit motor car.
    • The only rig nobody'd recognize is that clunker that Vic drove here in, and he won't take it.2004, Teralee E. M. Bird, What the Herald Angel Sang (Seraphim Trilogy Book One)
  2. (informal) Anything 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...1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 34

Noun (2)

clunker (plural clunkers)

  1. (Cornwall, obsolete) The trachea or windpipe.
  2. (Cornwall, obsolete) The uvula.

Questions about clunkers

What is clunkers the plural of?
Clunkers is the plural of clunker.

Words near clunkers in the dictionary

  1. clunial
  2. Clunie Water
  3. clunk
  4. clunked
  5. clunker
  6. clunkers
  7. clunkier
  8. clunkiest
  9. clunkily
  10. clunkiness
  11. clunking

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