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junker noun [ ˈdʒʌŋkə ]

• an old car in poor condition.
• "a gas-guzzling polluting junker"
• a drug addict.
• "junkers on the porches cussin' out everyone who walks by"
Origin: 1920s: from junk1 + -er1.

Junker noun

• a German nobleman or aristocrat, especially a member of the Prussian aristocracy.
• "a Reich dominated by the Junkers and an industrial bourgeoisie"
Origin: German, earlier Junkher, from Middle High German junc ‘young’ + herre ‘lord’.


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