junk

noun

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

(attributive) Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.

Nonsense; gibberish.

(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.

(slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.

(nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.

(nautical) 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.

A surname.

(dated, countable) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.

verb

(transitive, informal) To throw away.

(transitive, informal) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)

Synonyms for junk

trashn debrisn scrapn garbagen rubbishn rubblen trashyadj stuffn flotsamn wasten

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