Definition of junker
: something (such as an automobile) of such age and condition as to be ready for scrapping
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Examples of junker in a Sentence
I can't believe he's still driving that old junker.
they finally traded in their old junker for a nice new car
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Melin quit college and was working at the Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino buffet and driving a junker car to work.
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One of the biggest mysteries in the Star Wars franchise was seemingly solved in The Last Jedi, when Rey learned her parents were nothing but lowlife junkers who traded their daughter to get off the planet.
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Nicks took the junker and built a shed around it, investing seven months and about $6500.
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Bigfoot sails over some junkers in a 1989 event in Anaheim, California.
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Their signature acquisition of the winter, Melancon, already had become as useless as heated leather seats in a junker on cement blocks.
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State Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg, a Republican, and Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, a Democrat, have pushed this junker to the finish line, bringing a bill early in session that many — including us — wrote off as less-than-ideal.
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Origin and Etymology of junker
Origin and Etymology of junker
German, from Old High German junchērro, literally, young lord
JUNKER Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of junker for English Language Learners
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: an old car, truck, etc., that is in very poor condition
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