junk

Meaning

1. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.
2. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
3. (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
4. (slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.
5. Salt beef.
6. 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.
7. A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
8. Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
9. Nonsense; gibberish.

rubbish

small objects

waste material

old things

small things

toss away

cheap merchandise

broken piece

ramshackle furniture

shlock

bonding jumper

worthless object

waste and old materials

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/d͡ʒʌŋk/

From earlier meaning "old refuse from boats and ships", from Middle English junk, jounke, jonk, joynk (“an old cable or rope”, nautical term), sometimes cut into bits and used as caulking; of uncertain origin; perhaps related to join, joint, juncture. Often compared to Middle English junk, jonk, jonke, junck (“a rush; basket made of rushes”), from Old French jonc, from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”); however, the Oxford English Dictionary finds "no evidence of connexion".

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