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junk

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Noun

  1. Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
  2. Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
  3. Nonsense; gibberish.
  4. Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
  5. The genitalia, especially of a male.
  6. Salt beef.
  7. 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.
  8. A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
  9. A Chinese sailing vessel.

Verb

  1. To throw away.
  2. To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)

Proper noun

  1. A surname.

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