junk /d͡ʒʌŋk/noun 10verb 3forms 3 noun10 •a mix of different objects that are worth little and that people have put aside or thrown awayThis shed is full of junk – will you help me sort it out?She needs to find a better place to keep her junk [= belongings]. •[before a noun] Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.junk fish; junk trees •A Chinese sailing vessel.It was a vessel of about seventy tons burthen, and shaped something like a Chinese junk. — 1869 •Nonsense; gibberish.The student put down junk for answers just to finish his homework more quickly. •(slang) The 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 — 2009 •(slang) Any 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. — 1957 •(old-fashioned) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.Dear Uncle Sam pervides fer his, An' gives a good-sized junk to all — 1848 •Salt beef.My physician has ordered me three pounds of minced salt-junk at every meal . — 1851 •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. •An entity with no whole; every part is itself a proper part of something larger. verb3 •(informal) To throw away. •(informal) To 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. •(informal) To 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." formsjunked · junking · junks
