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  • noun Plural form of lunger.

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Examples

  • California has been built up by "lungers" from the East and middle West and is Eastern in character and feeling.

    The City That Was; a requiem of old San Francisco Will Irwin 1910

  • California has been built up by "lungers" from the East and middle

    Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Trumbull White 1904

  • Eager to escape her job as a medical secretary among the "lungers," as patients are known, Marion quickly falls in with the wrong crowd: fading flappers with marcelled bobs and blank eyes.

    The Rap Sheet 2009

  • In Alabama the regs just state that the cartridge must be cenetrfire and have expanding bullets. all his kills were neck shots at 15 yards or broadside double lungers at 50 or less.

    Is Your Bullet Big Enough? 2009

  • In Alabama the regs just state that the cartridge must be cenetrfire and have expanding bullets. all his kills were neck shots at 15 yards or broadside double lungers at 50 or less.

    Is Your Bullet Big Enough? 2009

  • He hath an army of women, smiters with swords and lungers with lances, five-and-twenty thousand in number, each of whom, whenas she mounteth steed and donneth battle-gear, eveneth a thousand knights of the bravest.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • S-ure has been calling him "Yankee pig" all day now, a hilarious joke he will not leave alone, often getting no further than "Yank -" before collapsing into some horrible twanging phthisic wheeze of a laugh, coughing up alarming ropy lungers of many colors and marbling effects-green, for example, old-statue green at leafy dusk.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • After the storm, David had insisted the windows must be opened again, -- that was the first law of lungers and chasers.

    Sunny Slopes Ethel Hueston

  • Get it out of your head that lungers always die -- they don't.

    Across the Mesa Helen Bagg 1935

  • He was the only one who could speak English among the "lungers."

    Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany Nellie L. McClung 1918

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  • Lunger is medical slang for a patient with chronic lung disease.

    December 21, 2009

  • Pronounced "lung-er" or "lunj-er"?

    December 21, 2009