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Junker Flunker

1. An old car that doesn't qualify for the $4,500 cash trade-in incentive from the government because it gets more than 15 mpg.
2. The sudden realization that your old beater vehicle is lost in the twilight zone between "generally worthless" and "totally worthless," forcing you to keep driving it for another year -- at least.
"I just looked up the mileage for my 1996 RAV4. The stupid Junker Flunker gets 16 mpg, which means I won't be getting any of that government cash after all. Drat!"
Junker Flunker by Peter Kobs July 29, 2009
a very awesome teacher, or someone who is really good at teaching other people
Karl: i don't get this problem
Hamda: just call over the teacher, he's a total junkerman, he'll help you out.
Junkerman by fantablous May 6, 2010
A beat-up old jalopy of a car.
I waved goodbye as she backed out of my driveway in her junker Mercury Sable.
junker by Fr. Nat January 4, 2009
A person who is gathers a bunch of trash and attempts to make use of it if not convert its original purpose to serve as something else.
Person A: So I just finish building my new home. But I decided to build it out of the things from a junkyard.
Person B: Well hopefully it doesn't fall on you while you are sleep.
Person A: Welll im more confident that it won't because I built it.
Person B: *Sigh* Sometimes being a junker isn't a good thing in this case.
Person A: Now I need to fix my car.
Junker by Syrikzero August 28, 2013
Landed aristocracy of Prussia and Eastern Germany. "Junker" in German means country squire. The particle "von" before their family names indicated their belonging to the nobility.
Otto von Bismarck and Paul von Hindenburg are famous Junkers. (pronounced YOON-ker)
Junker by The Sneak September 15, 2004

Junkernot 

Someone who knows nothing but junk.
All of them failed their test, they are just a bunch of junkernots.
Junkernot by Arden Bagwell October 1, 2019
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