Junk

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  • noun. Discarded material, such as glass, rags, paper, or metal, some of which may be reused in some form.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Articles that are worn-out or fit to be discarded.
  • noun. Cheap or shoddy material.
  • noun. Something meaningless, fatuous, or unbelievable.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The genitals.
  • noun. The buttocks.
  • noun. Heroin.
  • noun. Hard salt beef for consumption on board a ship.
  • transitive verb. To discard as useless or sell to be reused as parts; scrap.
  • adjective. Cheap, shoddy, or worthless.
  • adjective. Having a superficial appeal or utility, but lacking substance.
  • adjective. Relating to or similar to junk bonds, especially in having a high risk of default.
  • noun. A Chinese flatbottom ship with a high poop and battened sails.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A rush; a reed.
  • noun. Nautical, old or condemned cable and cordage cut into small pieces, used when untwisted for making points, gaskets, swabs, mats, etc., and picked into fibers to make oakum for calking seams.
  • noun. Hence Worn-out and discarded material in general that may be turned to some use; especially, old rope, chain, iron, copper, parts of machinery, and bottles, gathered or bought up by tradesmen called junk-dealers; hence, rubbish- of any kind; odds and ends.
  • noun. Salt beef or pork supplied to vessels for long voyages: so called from its resemblance in toughness to old ropes' ends.
  • noun. The mass of blubbery and cellular tissue which fills the cavity of the head of the sperm-whale between the case and the white-horse, containing oil and spermaceti.
  • noun. A large sea-going sailing vessel used in the Chinese seas.
  • noun. A thick piece; a. lump; a chunk.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See chunk.
  • noun. A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.
  • noun. Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
  • noun. Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.
  • noun. Something worthless, or only worth its value as recyclable scrap.
  • noun. Hard salted beef supplied to ships.
  • noun. a stout bottle made of thick dark-colored glass.
  • noun. a dealer in old cordage, old metal, glass, etc.
  • noun. a hook for hauling heavy pieces of blubber on deck.
  • noun. A follower.
  • noun. a shop where old cordage, and ship's tackle, old iron, old bottles, old paper, etc., are kept for sale.
  • noun. a large vat into which spent tan liquor or ooze is pumped.
  • noun. a wad used in proving cannon; also used in firing hot shot.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A Chinese sailing vessel.
  • noun. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
  • noun. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
  • noun. Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
  • noun. Genitalia.
  • noun. Salt beef.
  • verb. To throw away.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
  • noun. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
  • verb. dispose of (something useless or old)
  • Word Usage
    "~ One man's junk may be a genomic treasure -- Scientists have only recently begun to speculate that what`s referred to as “junk” DNA - the 96 percent of the human genome that doesn`t encode for proteins and previously seemed to have no useful purpose - is present in the genome for an important reason."
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    Funk  Monk  blunk  bunk  chunk  
    Same Context
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    artifacts  baggage  coin  crap  débris  
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    variant
    chunk  
    verb-form
    junked  junking  junks