Usually means: Discarding items deemed useless or unnecessary.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. junking: Merriam-Webster
  2. junking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. junking: Vocabulary.com
  4. junking: Wordnik
  5. junking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. junking: Wiktionary
  7. junking: Dictionary.com
  8. junking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. junking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. junking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. junking: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Junking: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See junk as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Junk)

noun:  Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
noun:  (attributive) Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
noun:  Nonsense; gibberish.
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.
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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