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n. Discarded material, such as glass, rags, paper, or metal, some of which may be reused in some form.

n. Informal Articles that are worn-out or fit to be discarded: broken furniture and other junk in the attic.

n. Informal Cheap or shoddy material.

n. Informal Something meaningless, fatuous, or unbelievable: nothing but junk in the annual report.

n. Slang Heroin.

n. Hard salt beef for consumption on board a ship.

v. To discard as useless or sell to be reused as parts; scrap.

adj. Cheap, shoddy, or worthless: junk jewelry.

adj. Having a superficial appeal or utility, but lacking substance: "the junk issues that have dominated this year's election” ( New Republic).

n. A Chinese flatbottom ship with a high poop and battened sails.

n. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.

n. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.

n. Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.

n. Genitalia.

n. Salt beef.

v. To throw away.

n. A Chinese sailing vessel.

n. A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See chunk.

n. 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.

n. Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.

n. Something worthless, or only worth its value as recyclable scrap.

n. Hard salted beef supplied to ships.

n. 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.

n. A rush; a reed.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. Salt beef or pork supplied to vessels for long voyages: so called from its resemblance in toughness to old ropes' ends.

n. 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.

n. A thick piece; a. lump; a chunk.

n. A large sea-going sailing vessel used in the Chinese seas.

n. any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails

n. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

v. dispose of (something useless or old)

"~ 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."

junked    junking    junks   

boat    throwaway    fling    dispose    toss away    chuck out    toss out    discard    put away    cast aside   

chunk   

junk DNA    junk food    junk bond    junkie   

trash    throw away    dump    dispose    ditch    chuck    chuck out    scrap    discard    chuck away   

Funk    Monk    blunk    bunk    chunk    clunk    crunk    debunk    drunk    dunk   

rubbish    débris    jewelry    toy    furniture    artifacts    merchandise    lumber    crap    baggage