Definitions for junky

junky junk·y

Spelling: [juhng-kee]
IPA: /ˈdʒʌŋ ki/

Junky is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in junky (jknuy).

Definitions for junky

noun

  1. junkie.
  2. a drug addict, especially one addicted to heroin.
  3. a person with an insatiable craving for something:
  4. an enthusiastic follower; fan; devotee:

adjective

  1. of the nature of junk; trashy.

Origin of junky

First recorded in 1945-50; junk1 + -y2

Examples for junky

An economy undermined by junky debt (Greek, rather than subprime) that threatened to prove contagious.

More than anything else, junky reads like a field guide to the American underworld.

Fattening your dividends by sending our boys up against the Prussian guns in junky motor-tanks covered with tin armor!

Come on down, junky, I won't be mad at you—if you follow directions.

junky—as his novel is now known—combines all these interests.

Word Value for junky
Scrable

19

Words with friends

22

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