junk

noun

1. 1

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

   This shed is full of junk – will you help me sort it out?

   She needs to find a better place to keep her junk [= belongings].

   What a piece of junk!

   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. 2

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

   junk food

   junk fish; junk trees

3. 3

   Nonsense; gibberish.

   The student put down junk for answers just to finish his homework more quickly.

4. 4

   slangAny narcotic drug, especially heroin.

   The poor fellow took so much junk into his system he could only weather the greater proportion of his day in that chair with the lamp burning at noon, but in the morning he was magnificent.

   Trace 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.

   Ah love nothing (except junk), ah hate nothing (except forces that prevent me getting any) and ah fear nothing (except not scoring).

5. 5

   slangThe genitalia, especially of a male.

   I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk / Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk / Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk

   But what to do about a kid who flashes his privates at your child? And worse, how do you make sure your kid does not reciprocate? That's exactly the dilemma one mom faced when she learned that her 5-year-old neighbor had flashed his "junk" at her two sons and then made them swear not to tell.

   Got a spot on the voice, I'm a neo punk / Old ladies cum when I flash my junk

6. 6

   Salt beef.

   My physician has ordered me three pounds of minced salt-junk at every meal .

7. 7

   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.

8. 8

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

   Dear Uncle Sam pervides fer his, An' gives a good-sized junk to all

   Then he lay quiet for a little, and then, pulling out a stick of tobacco, begged me to cut him a quid. “Cut me a junk o’ that,” says he, “for I haven’t no knife and hardly strength enough, so be as I had. […]”

9. 9

   An entity with no whole; every part is itself a proper part of something larger.

verb

1. 1

   informalTo throw away.

2. 2

   informalTo find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)

   (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."

3. 3

   informalTo consume junk food, mainly at a fast-food restaurant.

   Let's just junk some burgers at McDonald's.

   Let me go junking to KFC with you.

noun

1. 1

   A Chinese sailing vessel.

   It was a vessel of about seventy tons burthen, and shaped something like a Chinese junk.

Forms

plural

junks

past tense

junked

past participle

junked

present participle

junking

third person singular

junks