˜yÐÄvlog

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one-lunger

[ wuhn-luhng-er ]

noun

Slang.
  1. a one-cylinder internal-combustion engine.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of one-lunger1

1905–10; one lung + -er 1
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Poker and 112 cigarettes for a one-lunger bound for Colorado for his health!

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Just as we slowed up to turn into the private road that leads up to Breeze Acres, one of them dinky little one-lunger benzine buggies comes along, missin' forty explosions to the minute and coughin' itself to death on a grade you could hardly see.

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Then me and Sadie in her bubble, towin' the busted one-lunger behind.

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He was givin' orders to his boss canvasman when I found him, and feelin' the pulse of his one-lunger, that Mrs. Brassett's chauffeur had tinkered up.

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The California outfit dropped the Goldbug as though it had been stung, and a one-lunger stamp-mill chugged where the camp had dreamed of forty.

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