junk

/dʒʌŋk/

noun

  1. 1

    Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.

  2. 2

    A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.

  3. 3

    Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.

  4. 4

    The genitalia.

  5. 5

    Salt beef.

  6. 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. 7

    A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.

  8. 8

    Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.

    junk fish; junk trees

verb

  1. 1

    To throw away.

  2. 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. 1

    A Chinese sailing vessel.

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