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nounˈdʒʌŋkə North American informal 1An old car in poor condition. a gas-guzzling polluting junker Example sentencesExamples - "The transmission is shot, the brakes are on their last legs, and all things considered I don't think a person as successful as you should be tooling around in a beat-up old junker like this," the car will good-naturedly inform the owner.
- Lindy tried to get them to dump the junker two years ago after she bought the hybrid.
- Can you fix this junker enough to run another six months, or should we scrap it?
- He'll inherit his grandma's car if she ever dies and that thing is a junker.
- If you're buying used, you really have to make sure you don't buy a junker.
- The woman claims to have just purchased the junker but doesn't have any paperwork or proof of ownership.
- He makes one blunder after another, like trading his Mercedes for a junker and getting a consultation for liposuction.
- The Beverly Hills cops drive pristine cars; he drives an old, dilapidated junker.
- Education is the vehicle for our future, don't make us drive away in a junker like this.
- Finally, remind yourself that the choices you make now will help determine whether you end up a well-tuned muscle car or a rusted-out old junker.
- When my junker died I couldn't find a vehicle that I liked enough to waste vast sums of cash on.
2dated A drug addict. junkers on the porches cussin' out everyone who walks by Example sentencesExamples - Izzy and I turned more and more back toward the junkers we were.
- She changed, and became a junker nymphomaniac.
- He became a junker on the streets fighting against things that don't exist.
- For an unassuming pair of country-folk dreamers, their debut resonates with a wild collection of weirdos: county-fair folk-fest burn-outs, cowboy junkers, and record store braggarts.
- Methadone was developed so junkers wouldnt jump outta their skin.
Origin 1920s: from junk1 + -er1. nounˈjʊŋkəˈyo͝oNGkər historical A German nobleman or aristocrat, especially a member of the Prussian aristocracy. a Reich dominated by the Junkers and an industrial bourgeoisie as modifier Junker resistance to the abolition of serfdom Example sentencesExamples - Moreover, there were similar disparities in wealth and status: magnates of the Silesian nobility had little in common with backwoodsmen like the Prussian Junkers.
- Those farmers who remained on the land became more militant, resulting in the loss of power by the old rural upper orders, from East Prussian Junkers to the Boycotts of North Mayo.
- Many historians continue to view the Prussian Junker as the residual villain of modern German history.
- By 1815 the Junker aristocracy was back in the saddle and concessions became even more restricted.
- The propagandists were often as skilful and as devious as the great Prussian Junker himself.
Derivatives noun historical It was Junkerdom's field day and the reactionaries were in their best form. Example sentencesExamples - Junkerism and junkerdom indicate the policies and the customary round of ideas, judgments, and prejudices characteristic of the junker class.
- Hindenburg is an example of this branch of Junkerdom.
noun historical I see the people of England united in a fierce detestation and defiance of the views and acts of Prussian Junkerism. Example sentencesExamples - Certainly this province was by no means the cradle of Junkerism as some people think.
Origin German, earlier Junkher, from Middle High German junc 'young' + herre 'lord'. nounˈjəNGkər North American informal 1An old car in poor condition. a gas-guzzling polluting junker Example sentencesExamples - He'll inherit his grandma's car if she ever dies and that thing is a junker.
- The Beverly Hills cops drive pristine cars; he drives an old, dilapidated junker.
- If you're buying used, you really have to make sure you don't buy a junker.
- Lindy tried to get them to dump the junker two years ago after she bought the hybrid.
- Education is the vehicle for our future, don't make us drive away in a junker like this.
- Can you fix this junker enough to run another six months, or should we scrap it?
- He makes one blunder after another, like trading his Mercedes for a junker and getting a consultation for liposuction.
- When my junker died I couldn't find a vehicle that I liked enough to waste vast sums of cash on.
- "The transmission is shot, the brakes are on their last legs, and all things considered I don't think a person as successful as you should be tooling around in a beat-up old junker like this," the car will good-naturedly inform the owner.
- Finally, remind yourself that the choices you make now will help determine whether you end up a well-tuned muscle car or a rusted-out old junker.
- The woman claims to have just purchased the junker but doesn't have any paperwork or proof of ownership.
2dated A drug addict. junkers on the porches cussin' out everyone who walks by Example sentencesExamples - He became a junker on the streets fighting against things that don't exist.
- For an unassuming pair of country-folk dreamers, their debut resonates with a wild collection of weirdos: county-fair folk-fest burn-outs, cowboy junkers, and record store braggarts.
- Methadone was developed so junkers wouldnt jump outta their skin.
- Izzy and I turned more and more back toward the junkers we were.
- She changed, and became a junker nymphomaniac.
nounˈyo͝oNGkər historical A German nobleman or aristocrat, especially a member of the Prussian aristocracy. Example sentencesExamples - By 1815 the Junker aristocracy was back in the saddle and concessions became even more restricted.
- Moreover, there were similar disparities in wealth and status: magnates of the Silesian nobility had little in common with backwoodsmen like the Prussian Junkers.
- The propagandists were often as skilful and as devious as the great Prussian Junker himself.
- Those farmers who remained on the land became more militant, resulting in the loss of power by the old rural upper orders, from East Prussian Junkers to the Boycotts of North Mayo.
- Many historians continue to view the Prussian Junker as the residual villain of modern German history.
Origin German, earlier Junkher, from Middle High German junc ‘young’ + herre ‘lord’. |