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junk

1

[ juhngk ]

noun

  1. any old or discarded material, as metal, paper, or rags.

    Synonyms: refuse, debris, litter, rubbish

  2. anything that is regarded as worthless, meaningless, or contemptible; trash.

    Synonyms: refuse, debris, litter, rubbish

  3. old cable or cordage used when untwisted for making gaskets, swabs, oakum, etc.
  4. Nautical Slang. salt junk.
  5. Baseball Slang. relatively slow, unorthodox pitches that are deceptive to the batter in movement or pace, as knuckleballs or forkballs.


verb (used with object)

  1. to cast aside as junk; discard as no longer of use; scrap.

adjective

  1. cheap, worthless, unwanted, or trashy.

junk

2

[ juhngk ]

noun

  1. a seagoing ship with a traditional Chinese design and used primarily in Chinese waters, having square sails spread by battens, a high stern, and usually a flat bottom.

junk

3

[ juhngk ]

noun

, Slang.
  1. narcotics, especially heroin.
  2. the external genitals:

    I kicked him in the junk.

junk

1

/ dʒʌŋk /

noun

  1. discarded or secondhand objects, etc, collectively
  2. informal.
    1. rubbish generally
    2. nonsense

      the play was absolute junk

  3. slang.
    any narcotic drug, esp heroin


verb

  1. informal.
    tr to discard as junk; scrap

junk

2

/ dʒʌŋk /

noun

  1. a sailing vessel used in Chinese waters and characterized by a very high poop, flat bottom, and square sails supported by battens

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Word History and Origins

Origin of junk1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English jonk, junk “(in sailing) old rope or cable”; further origin uncertain

Origin of junk2

First recorded in 1545–55; from Portuguese junco, from Malay jong “large boat, ship,” possibly from dialectal Chinese (Xiamen) chûn; compare Guangdong (Cantonese) dialect syùhn, (Mandarin) Chinese chuán

Origin of junk3

First recorded in 1920–25; perhaps special use of junk 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of junk1

C15 jonke old useless rope

Origin of junk2

C17: from Portuguese junco, from Javanese jon; related to Dutch jonk

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Example Sentences

I am not the most financially literate person (I would be hard-pressed to articulate the term “junk bond”).

What you see is a massive, well-intentioned, legal junk pile.

For those in the resource world, every ton of junk that goes into a landfill represents wasted energy.

(Or as Gehry framed it in the Sketches documentary: “mak[ing] beauty with junk”).

I am just so convinced that junk food and high sugar food are undermining the health of people…It caused a lot of strain.

But as no junk-man came, and as no one could be found to care for its now sadly battered hulk, its good riddance became a problem.

We obliged them to proceed, passed close by the junk, and then landed, and continued our excursion on foot.

After he had married her, he'd sell out this pile of junk and let somebody else haggle with the Injuns and cowpunchers.

Your Caroline, so enticing five hours before in this very chamber where she frisked about like an eel, is now a junk of lead.

Then bit by bit, he unloaded his mind, which appeared full of little things, like a junk shop.

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