junker

Noun (1)

junker (plural junkers)

1. A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
   • Professors of philosophy and science carrying high the patriotic banner of Kultur and culture gloried in the system of compulsory, universal, military service, first made in Germany exulted in the degrading, vicious process of training by which the individual is hypnotized into submission to a...1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress
   • The dice are, however, weighted against them, so long as the present generation of Junkers and officials survives.1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic

Noun (2)

IPA/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkə(ɹ)/

junker (plural junkers)

1. (Canada, US, derogatory, informal) A beat-up automobile.

   Synonyms:

   banger, beater, bucket of bolts, bucket of rust, clunker, crate, crock, flivver, gas guzzler, hooptie

2. A person with an interest in disused or discarded objects.
   • An ardent junker herself, Mrs. Egge tells how to conduct a fascinating junk safari into the attic or antique and secondhand shops and what to do with the trophies you bring home.1968, Ruth Stearns Egge, How to Make Something from Nothing
3. (slang) Synonym of junkie (“drug addict”).

   Synonyms:

   junkie

Noun (3) capitalized: Junker

Junker (plural Junkers)

1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of junker.