junk
/dʒʌŋk/
noun
- 1
Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
- 2
A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
- 3
Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
- 4
The genitalia.
- 5
Salt beef.
- 6
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.
- 7
A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
- 8
Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
“junk fish; junk trees”
verb
- 1
To throw away.
- 2
To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junk shop)
“(On Facebook, a record collector wrote:) "The newest addition to my Annette Hanshaw collection, I junked this beautiful flawless E-copy within walking distance from my house."”
noun
- 1
A Chinese sailing vessel.
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