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In some senses, junk is marked as slang, informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
This shed is full of junk – will you help me sort it out?
She needs to find a better place to keep her junk [= belongings].
Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
junk food
junk fish; junk trees
Nonsense; gibberish.
The student put down junk for answers just to finish his homework more quickly.
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.
Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck junk through all the hungry young cells.
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
But what to do about a kid who flashes his privates at your child? And worse, how do you make sure your kid does not reciprocate? That's exactly the dilemma one mom faced when she learned that her 5-year-old neighbor had flashed his "junk" at her two sons and then made them swear not to tell.
verb
To throw away.
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."
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.
noun
A Chinese sailing vessel.