klunk U.S. slang.
(klʌŋk)
Also clunk.
[Of unknown origin.]
A derogatory designation for a person.
| 1942 Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §396 Klunk [in list of terms of disparagement for a person]. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 399 What was unique about Jones was that he had come out of nowhere, self-taught, a clunk in his lacks. 1964 S. Bellow Herzog (1965) 78 He sat there, in her own words, like a clunk, bored, resentful. 1964 N.Y. Herald-Tribune 2 Jan. 8/1 Mr. Wagner has been a remarkably good mayor, and the klunks who don't realize this, they add, understand neither the Mayor himself nor the nature of his responsibilities. |