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  • I wouldn't call a mountain bike with a suspension fork and disc brakes "klunker".

    Murmurs.com 2009

  • Some of them doen't seem to realize there are browsers other than Micro$oft's Internet Explorer, including my favorite, the Opera browser which runs rings around Explorer and that klunker, "designed by volunteers", Firefox.

    Space Reporting Snobbery - NASA Watch 2009

  • I used to think a Sim-Politics game would be a real klunker … but you have all sorts of sex, drugs and other scandals.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - GTA Critic Politician In Prostitution Ring Bust 2008

  • For the life of me I cannot understand why Microsoft would want to attach themselves to a klunker like Yahoo.

    Microsoft: Machiavellian or Muddled? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • The ultimate klunker was Washington's Kennedy Center.

    Setting the Record Straight About Ed Stone and Brad Cloepfil 2008

  • Unless it really is an old klunker, you should put a thermostat in the damn thing and run the 50/50 mix of anti-freeze and Mexican water as is recommended.

    Car care in Mexico 2006

  • Unless it really is an old klunker, you should put a thermostat in the damn thing and run the 50/50 mix of anti-freeze and Mexican water as is recommended.

    Car care in Mexico 2006

  • I have only been driving the klunker around Ajijic but now that I plan to take that particular vehicle to San Cristobal, maybe I´d better follow your advice.

    Car care in Mexico 2006

  • We cycle around to them repeatedly, so they conjure up the relative who showed us how, the old klunker stove we had to watch like a hawk, or the baby smacking her spoon on the highchair tray, squealing in anticipation.

    Toast: Lindy 2005

  • We cycle around to them repeatedly, so they conjure up the relative who showed us how, the old klunker stove we had to watch like a hawk, or the baby smacking her spoon on the highchair tray, squealing in anticipation.

    Meyer Lemon Tea Cake Lindy 2005

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  • Klunker is slang for the early mountain bikes. c. 1983

    Schwinn bikes marketed a bike after the term was coined for bikes in California

    January 12, 2013

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