junk
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
- Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
- The genitalia, especially of a male.
- Salt beef.
- 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.
- A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
- A Chinese sailing vessel.
Verb
- To throw away.
- To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)
Proper noun
- A surname.
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