Definitions for junk

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Spelling: [juhngk]

IPA: /dʒʌŋk/

Junk is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in junk (jknu).

Definitions for junk

noun

1. any old or discarded material, as metal, paper, or rags.
2. anything that is regarded as worthless, meaningless, or contemptible; trash.
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.
6. 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.
7. narcotics, especially heroin.
8. the external genitals:

adjective

1. cheap, worthless, unwanted, or trashy.

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of junk

First recorded in 1480-90; earlier jonke, of uncertain origin

Examples for 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.

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

"I'm a hustler on a dicker, and a hellion on junk," snapped the boss.

The closet, full of the junk that had been thrown into it, followed.

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

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

Kay brought her to the heap of junk and placed the box on top of it.

And you keep it stuffed around in every junk hole from the roof to the cellar.

One is burned and damaged; another looks like a 1960s-style Airstream buried in a pile of old furniture, toys, and other junk.

Where the airplanes and other junk had been, was nothing but a heap of grayish dust.