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junkyard

nounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈd͡ʒʌŋkˌjɑɹd//

A place where rubbish is discarded.

noun

  1. 1

    A place where rubbish is discarded.

  2. 2

    A business that sells used metal or items.

Etymology

From junk + yard.

Forms

plural
junkyards
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).