junk in English dictionary

  • junk

    Meanings and definitions of "junk"

    • Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
    • A collection of miscellaneous items of little value
    • (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
    • (slang) Genitalia.
    • (nautical) Salt beef.
    • (transitive) To throw away.
    • (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.
    • noun
      (nautical)
      A Chinese sailing vessel.
    • noun
      Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
    • noun
      A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
    • noun
      (slang)
      Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
    • noun
      (slang)
      Genitalia.
    • noun
      (nautical)
      Salt beef.
    • noun
      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.
    • noun
      (dated)
      A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To throw away.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junk shop)
    • E-mail that a customer does not want delivered to their inbox, including spam and phishing messages (identified by the mail service) and messages from blocked senders and domains.
    • rubbish, waste
    • miscellaneous items of little value
    • narcotic drug
    • slang: genitalia
    • throw away
    • Chinese sailing vessel
    • Unwanted or undesired material, usually discarded.
    • Worthless object of bad quality.
    • noun
      any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
    • noun
      a collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
      There is so much junk in the cellar.
    • noun
      the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
    • verb
      dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer"

    Synonyms of "junk" in English dictionary

    detritus, fling, toss away are the top synonyms of "junk" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of junk

    • junk ( third-person singular simple present junks, present participle junking, simple past and past participle junked)
    • junk ( uncountable)
    • junk ( plural  junks)
    • junk (uncountable)
    • junk (third-person singular simple present junks, present participle junking, simple past and past participle junked)
  • Junk

    Meanings and definitions of "junk"

    • Junk (ship)

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