junkers
Cars for scrap
Junkers, plural of junker, refers to old, dilapidated vehicles—cars, trucks, or other machinery—that are worn out and barely functional or fit only for salvage.
A car dealer might dismiss a trade-in as nothing but a junker, while a teenager's first car is often an affordable junker.
The term carries a slightly affectionate tone when applied to vehicles that, despite their condition, still run. (Capitalized Junker refers to the Prussian landed aristocracy.)
Worn-out, unreliable automobiles
- beatersTools for mixing
- rust-bucketsSeverely corroded old vehicles
- jalopiesDecrepit old vehicles
- wrecksDestroys completely
heaps · rattletraps · hoopties · dilapidated · broken-down · scrapyard · salvage · junkyard
From a former Baltic kingdom
- aristocratsHereditary ruling class
- landownersHolders of real property
- estatesLarge property holdings
- nobilityTitled ruling class
German · feudal · squires · manorial · militarism · conservative · reactionary · Bismarck
clunkers
Worn-out, unreliable automobiles
- beatersTools for mixing
- rust-bucketsSeverely corroded old vehicles
- jalopiesDecrepit old vehicles
wrecks · heaps · rattletraps · hoopties · dilapidated · broken-down · scrapyard · salvage · junkyard · rusted
Prussian
From a former Baltic kingdom
- aristocratsHereditary ruling class
- landownersHolders of real property
- estatesLarge property holdings
nobility · German · feudal · squires · manorial · militarism · conservative · reactionary · Bismarck · agrarian
Stuka
German diving attack aircraft
- LuftwaffeGerman military aviation
- bomberExplosive-delivery aircraft or saboteur
- dive-bomberAircraft attacking while descending
WWII · aviation · German · monoplane · transport · warplane · corrugated · biplane · fighter · reconnaissance
- landownerslandlords, farmer, rancher, freeholders, homesteader
- eliteelite, elites, aristocrats, nobility, best
- demo derbydemolition derby, roll cages, safety harness, crash helmet
- Imperial Estatesestates, electors, princes, imperial cities, free cities
- serfdomserfs, villeins, villeinage, thralls, bondage
junkersluxury cars
Upscale, expensive automobiles
cherry · mint condition · cream puffs · new cars · classics
junkerspeasants
Low-ranking agricultural workers
serfs · commoners · tenant farmers · proletariat · working class
junkersluxury cars
Upscale, expensive automobiles
limousines · sports cars · supercars · Rolls-Royces · Ferraris