Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A old car or truck in poor condition.
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- noun A
beat-up automobile . - noun A young
German noble orsquire , especially a member of the aristocratic party inPrussia , stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In May, they said, Moussaoui piled everything he owned into his "junker" white Ford Taurus and driven away, leaving no forwarding address.
Neighbors 2007
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One of the first vehicles he painted was an old "junker" garden supply truck for a woman who lived on William Street.
KeysNews.com - admin 2010
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Once settled in Los Angeles, she budgeted a thousand dollars for a "junker" to get around.
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Once settled in Los Angeles, she budgeted a thousand dollars for a "junker" to get around.
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But he said he's going to keep driving the "junker" and watch the economy spin for a while.
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But he said he's going to keep driving the "junker" and watch the economy spin for a while.
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These public/private partnerships are leading to now many having to hang on to their automobiles for many, many years also, or give up driving now due to insurance costs and the amount of fees and fines for minor offenses - since there are now less donations to those "junker" donation programs than ever before, according to a recent report of the decreasealso in donations that are being received by civic organizations, which aremore and morerequesting and receiving insteadgovernment grant monies and thus arms of big brother once again, becoming also nothing more than branches of the government in claimed "non-profit" public/private partnerships based on matching sum requirements for those grant monies.
Heath Care Deform Bill To Mirror Digital Cable Bills Impact? 2010
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These public/private partnerships are leading to now many having to hang on to their automobiles for many, many years also, or give up driving now due to insurance costs and the amount of fees and fines for minor offenses - since there are now less donations to those "junker" donation programs than ever before, according to a recent report of the decreasealso in donations that are being received by civic organizations, which aremore and morerequesting and receiving insteadgovernment grant monies and thus arms of big brother once again, becoming also nothing more than branches of the government in claimed "non-profit" public/private partnerships based on matching sum requirements for those grant monies.
Heath Care Deform Bill To Mirror Digital Cable Bills Impact? 2010
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The junker that I had been assigned was a retrofit.
365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The brief heyday of militarism, repression and junker ascendancy must be balanced against the Prussian Enlightenment, Pietism and a surprising role as a bulwark of democracy during the Weimar Republic.
The Obami Push On 2010
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