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junk

/d͡ʒʌŋk/

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What does junk mean?

noun

  1. Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
  2. Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
  3. Nonsense; gibberish.
More meanings (11)

noun

  1. (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
  2. (slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.
  3. Salt beef.
  4. 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.
  5. An entity with no whole; every part is itself a proper part of something larger.
  6. A Chinese sailing vessel.
  7. (dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.

verb

  1. (informal) To throw away.
  2. (informal) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)
  3. (informal) To consume junk food, mainly at a fast-food restaurant.

proper noun

  1. 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.
Frederic, Lord HamiltonHere, There and EverywhereProject Gutenberg ebook #6368
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.
Frank NorrisMcTeague: A Story of San FranciscoProject Gutenberg ebook #165
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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.
Richard Henry DanaTwo Years Before the MastProject Gutenberg ebook #2055
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.
Jane AddamsTwenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical NotesProject Gutenberg ebook #1325