Lunker vs Clunker - What's the difference?
lunker | clunker |
(US) Anything, especially a game fish, that is especially large for its type; a whopper.
(informal) A decrepit motor car.
* 2004 , Teralee E. M. Bird, What the Herald Angel Sang (Seraphim Trilogy Book One), ISBN 9781411617216:
(informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
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As nouns the difference between lunker and clunker
is that lunker is anything, especially a game fish, that is especially large for its type; a whopper while clunker is a decrepit motor car.lunker
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(en noun)clunker
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(en noun)- The only rig nobody'd recognize is that clunker that Vic drove here in, and he won't take it.
Who's Been Playing At Erma's Typewriter?," Ocala Star-Banner , 3 Oct., p. 12A (retrieved 2 Sep. 2009):
- I bought an old clunker of a typewriter.
Books: Best book by a Chicago author" (Review of Trouble'' by Patrick Somerville), ''Time Out Chicago , 28 Dec. (retrieved 2 Sep. 2009):
- All of the stories have a subtle undercurrent of brutality, and the writing is consistently sharp, direct and darkly funny, and there’s not a clunker in the bunch.