clanker n.
1. a gross, deliberate lie.
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Clanker a swinging Lie. | ||
New Canting Dict. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. | |
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
2. (US tramp) a boxcar.
Pulling a Train’ [ebook] I’d manage to jump aboard an empty boxcar [...] they were called clankers. | Introduction in