junks

Noun

junk (usually uncountable, plural junks)

1. (usually) Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
   • This shed is full of junk – will you help me sort it out?

   Synonyms:

   clutter, cultch, crap, debris, dreck, drek, garbage, gash, litter, pelf

2. (attributive, usually) Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
   • junk food
3. (usually) Nonsense; gibberish.
   • The student put down junk for answers just to finish his homework more quickly.
4. (slang, usually) 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.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC
5. (slang, usually) 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, drunk2009, “Tik Tok”, performed by Kesha

   Synonyms:

   anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad

6. (usually) Salt beef.
   • My physician has ordered me three pounds of minced salt-junk at every meal .c. 1851-1852, James Russell Lowell, Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere

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