junk
junk¹
Definition
junk (juŋk)
noun
- Obsolete old cable or rope used for making oakum, mats, etc.
- old metal, glass, paper, rags, etc., parts of which may be salvageable for reuse
- Informal useless or worthless stuff; trash; rubbish
- ☆ Slang a narcotic drug; esp., heroin
- Baseball, Slang low-velocity pitches, esp. slow curve balls
Etymology: ME jonk < ? jonk, reed < OFr jonc < L juncus, a rush: see jonquil
transitive verb
☆ Informal to throw away as worthless or get rid of by selling as junk; discard; scrap
junk′y adjective junk′i·er, junk′i·est
junk²
Definition
junk (juŋk)
noun
a Chinese or Japanese flat-bottomed ship with a high stern and lugsails or lateen sails
Etymology: Fr jonque < Port junco < Jav jong < Malay adjong
junk
Synonyms
junk
n.
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Synonyms
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Usage Examples
Converse of object
- accumulate: Ours was no exception - we'd been accumulating junk in our last house for 13 years.
- eat: We also reported parents' great frustration over powerful peer pressure at school to eat only junk for lunch.
- send: Junk and other unwanted e-mail I've been sent some junk e-mail, what do I do now?
- remove: Threw large amounts of stuff onto the landing and started removing the real junk.
Adjective modifier
- assorted: Sadly one almost expects waterways to have assorted junk in them and Salmon's Brook is no exception.
- processed: I am ashamed of the food I serve up, salty, processed junk.
- useless: Only in America do they leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put useless junk in the garage.
- unsolicited: Spam Unsolicited junk e-mail sent to large numbers of people often containing irrelevant or inappropriate messages.
- unwanted: Spam, spam, nothing but spam ' Spam ' is the Internet term for unwanted junk e-mail.
- Chinese: He was a pole man on a Chinese junk.
Modifies a noun
- mail: Of course junk mail does have a couple of benefits.
- E-mail: For more comfortable moving of spam to Junk E-mail, use the Junk button on the Apple Mail toolbar.
- emails: The more you comp, the more ` junk emails ' you get.
- mailer: The junk mailers have access to the permanent change of address database; they use it to update their lists.
- e-mails: Increasingly a large volume of e-mail users are bothered by the volume of SPAM or unsolicited junk e-mails which appear.
- food: Junk food ads to be banned from kids ' TV.
Noun used with modifier
- sailing: Take a sunset cruise aboard a Siamese sailing junk or enjoy a massage in the shade of a palm tree.
- advertising: Junk food clampdown threat The food industry was warned to stop advertising junk food to children within a year or face a clampdown.
- household: Scrap Heap Challenge Build a tank transporter using household junk to transport one, two or three model tanks.
- filter: You no longer have to download and filter junk messages, saving your time and bandwidth.
junk Quotes
I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.
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