one-lunger

[wuhn-luhng-er]

noun

Slang.

1. a one-cylinder internal-combustion engine.

Word History and Origins

Origin of one-lunger¹

1905–10; one lung + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Poker and 112 cigarettes for a one-lunger bound for Colorado for his health!

From Project Gutenberg

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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