as in crate
a dilapidated old automobile they finally traded in their old junker for a nice new car

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Recent Examples of junker The original — which helped make the show’s title into a universal shorthand for junker rejuvenation — aired on MTV for six seasons from 2004-2007. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 May 2024 Scrap Car Comparison scraps thousands of cars every year, but this year has decided to put them to good use by naming those junkers after your ex. Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2024 It’s been on the airwaves for about 50 years — almost as long as California has had its pioneering Lemon Law protecting us from getting stuck with junkers. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023 The cast from Bram Stoker’s novel are transposed to space junkers, who come across the derelict spaceship Demeter. Vulture, 13 Aug. 2023 Forced back together with his estranged son, Max (Dakota Goyo), Charlie teams up with Bailey (Evangeline Lilly), the daughter of his former boxing coach, to build up a junker 'bot named Atom to re-enter the ring for a last shot at glory, while also building up their relationships. Nick Romano, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2021 Cotler and Bell had done that exact thing in 2011: Their very first JITV RV was a Craigslist junker-turned-recording studio that Cotler parked in his Venice backyard. Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022 An episode might follow someone who had long suffered driving an unreliable, junker of a car. New York Times, 11 July 2022 The pair work together to repair a junker training robot to get ring-ready, while simultaneously mending their relationship. Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2022

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“Junker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junker. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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