Junk

Quick meaning: Junk is a noun meaning Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.

Meaning

Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.

More Meanings

1. (attributive) Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
2. Nonsense; gibberish.
3. (nautical) 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. (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
6. (slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.
7. (dated, countable) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.

Example Sentences

What a piece of junk!

junk fish; junk trees

This shed is full of junk – will you help me sort it out?

She needs to find a better place to keep her junk [= belongings].

Word Forms

• junks
• junking
• junked

Synonyms for junk

Depending on context, synonyms include bin, chuck, discard, ditch, dump, scrap.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trash, scrap, debris, smack, rubble, shit.

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