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I can't believe he's still driving that old junker. they finally traded in their old junker for a nice new carRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
Both men were spending the weekend in the back bed of their junker pickup trucks. — Jason Nark, Philly.com, "Destined for the junkyard, beloved lemons hit the South Jersey track," 11 May 2018 Melin quit college and was working at the Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino buffet and driving a junker car to work. — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, "How two Louisville college dropouts in their 20s made a mint in Bitcoins," 29 Mar. 2018 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. — Matt Miller, Esquire, "The Mystery of Rey's Parents Might Not Be Solved Yet," 2 Jan. 2018 Nicks took the junker and built a shed around it, investing seven months and about $6500. — Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, "Building Speed: Nitrous-Juiced Shed on Wheels Hits 96.8 MPH [Video]," 30 Aug. 2017 Bigfoot sails over some junkers in a 1989 event in Anaheim, California. — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, "What I'd Do Differently: Bigfoot Creator Bob Chandler," 13 July 2017 Their signature acquisition of the winter, Melancon, already had become as useless as heated leather seats in a junker on cement blocks. — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, "Melancon’s blown save negates Pence’s first pinch homer as Arenado’s cycle beats Giants," 18 June 2017 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. — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, "Jalopy of a budget deal is too sweet to pass up," 5 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'junker.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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