Junk

Pronunciation

• enPR: jÅ­ngk, IPA: /dʒʌŋk/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋk

From Middle English junke ("old cable, rope"), probably from Old French jonc ("rush"), from Latin iuncus ("rush")

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Full definition of junk

Noun

1. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
• 2013-05-25, No hiding place, In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
2. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
3. (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
• 1961, William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine, page 7Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck junk through all the hungry young cells.
4. (slang) Genitalia.
• 2009, Kesha, Tik TokI'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunkBoys tryin' to touch my junk, junkGonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk
5. (nautical) Salt beef.
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. (dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.

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Verb

1. (transitive) To throw away.

Synonyms

• (throw away) bin, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash

From Portuguese junco, from Javanese djong (Malay adjong).

Noun

1. (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.