one-lunger
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of one-lunger
1905–10; one lung + -er 1
Example Sentences
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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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