Usually means: Discarded items of little value.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. junk: Merriam-Webster
  2. junk, junk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. junk, junk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. junk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. junk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Junk, junk: Wordnik
  7. junk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Junk, junk: Wiktionary
  9. junk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. junk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. junk: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Junk, junk: Dictionary.com
  13. junk (1), junk (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. junk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Jun.K, Junk (band), Junk (film), Junk (novel), Junk (ship), Junk (song), Junk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Junk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. junk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. junk: Rhymezone
  19. junk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. junk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Junk: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. junk: FreeDictionary.org
  23. junk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. junk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. junk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. junk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. junk: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. junk: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. junk, junk, junk, junk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Junk: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. the junk: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Junk: Latitude Mexico
  6. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See junked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.
noun:  A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
noun:  (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
noun:  (slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.
noun:  (nautical) Salt beef.
noun:  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.
noun:  (dated, countable) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
noun:  (attributive) Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
noun:  Nonsense; gibberish.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To throw away.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)
noun:  (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.
noun:  A surname.

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