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junk

/dʒʌŋk/

noun

Meaning

  • Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.

  • A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.

  • Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.

  • The genitalia.

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

  • Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.

    "junk fish; junk trees"

verb

Meaning

  • To throw away.

  • 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.""

Synonyms

bin,
chuck,
chuck away,
chuck out,
discard,
dispose,
ditch,
dump,
scrap,
throw away,
throw out,
toss,
trash