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junk
/d͡ʒʌŋk/
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What does junk mean?
noun
- Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
- Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
More meanings (11)
noun
- (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
- (slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.
- Salt beef.
- Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
- An entity with no whole; every part is itself a proper part of something larger.
- A Chinese sailing vessel.
- (dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
verb
- (informal) To throw away.
- (informal) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)
- (informal) To consume junk food, mainly at a fast-food restaurant.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/d͡ʒʌŋk/
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A Chinese boy comes ashore from each junk with a horn, which he blows as a signal to the ducks that bedtime has arrived.
Little parties were made up in his saloon--parties of twos and threes--to go over and have a look at the outside of the junk shop.
More book examples (2)
The steerage in which I lived was filled with coils of rigging, spare sails, old junk and ship stores, which had not been stowed away.
It is easy for a child thus trained to accept the proposition of a junk dealer to bring him bars of iron stored in freight yards.