klunker
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of clunker; a dilapidated, worn-out, or noisy machine.
American usage; Slang
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Klunker.
Example Sentences
- "[...] you can get a lot more out of hamming because you will tend to go out and buy a first class rig rather than try to make do with a klunker in case you fail to upgrade."
- "But sometimes, in trying to keep the ticket down (when the Customer explains that he only wants the old klunker to run as far as the dealer’s lot so he can trade it in) we take a chance and only do a valve job when it really needs a ring job, too. [...] We think we’re doing about as careful and conscientious a job as it is possible to do in this business, but that man with the smokey klunker makes as much (verbal) noise as a couple of dozen of our Regular Customers!"
- "VB is a rich, extensible, event-driven programming environment in which user interaction is paramount. By contrast, this Excel dialect of VBA is a stringent, top-to-bottom klunker that is not even in VB’s league. Creating a decent interface in VBA, you’ll shortly see, can be described—charitably—as challenging."
- "The Microsoft ME editor shipped with the MASM 5.0 also seems to be a klunker."